One option would be to use biological examples to stalk general issues in philosophy of science - the nature of theory and theory change, causation, explanation, and prediction. There are, of course, many different ways to write an introduction to philosophy of biology. He did, however, have a major input into chapter 12. Since 1996 this book has probably been the main project of the two survivors, Braddon Mitchell having been submerged by other plans. After a couple of years of talking, we seriously got down to writing in 1995. Thus the basic body plan of the book was laid down a body plan that, in contrast to some others, has not remained impervious to developmental and other perturbations. So he talked the idea over with Griffiths and with David Braddon Mitchell, an Australian philosopher of science with interests in both philosophy of biology and Australian botany.
On Sterelny's return to the Antipodes, he continued to think about the project, and decided that a collaborative project would be more fun to do and would result in a better book. This book began long ago and far away, in Chicago in 1993 when one of us (Sterelny) tried out the basic idea on David Hull and Susan Abrams, both of whom were supportive. Sociobiology and Evolutionary Psychology on the EmotionsĮmotion, Evolution, and Evolved Psychology The Arrow of Time and the Ladder of Progressġ3 From Sociobiology to Evolutionary Psychologyįrom Darwinian Behaviorism to Darwinian Psychologyġ4 A Case Study: Evolutionary Theories of Emotion Molecular Genetics: Transcription and Translationġ1 Adaptation, Ecology, and the Environment How Theories Relate: Displacement, Incorporation, and Integration The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences - Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992.Īre Human Beings Programmed by Their Genes?īiology and the Pre-emption of Social Scienceĭevelopmental Systems and Extended Replicators (Science and its conceptual foundations) Includes bibliographical references (p. Sex and death : an introduction to philosophy of biology / Kim Sterelny and Paul E. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Reproduced by permission of the University of Illinois Press. Hennig, Phyhgenetic Systematic, © 1979 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. Reproduced by permission of the publisher. The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., Londonįigure 6.3 is from Karen Arms and Pamela S. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 He is the author of What Emotions Really Are: The Problem of Psychological Categories. Griffiths is currently head of the History and Philosophy of Science unit of the University of Sydney. He is the author of Language and Reality and The Representational Theory of Mind: An Introduction. Kim Sterelny is currently Reader in Philosophy at the Victoria University of Wellington.