| 书目名称 | Is Science Sexist? | | 副标题 | And Other Problems i | | 编辑 | Michael Ruse | | 视频video | | | 丛书名称 | The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | Philosophy of biology has a long and honourable history. Indeed, like most of the great intellectual achievements of the Western World, it goes back to the Greeks. However, until recently in this century, it was sadly neglected. With a few noteworthy exceptions, someone wishing to delve into the subject had to choose between extremes of insipid vitalism on the one hand, and sterile formalizations of the most elementary biological principles on the other. Whilst philosophy of physics pushed confidently ahead, the philosophy of biology languished. In the past decade, however, things have changed dramatically. A number of energetic and thoughtful young philosophers have made real efforts to master the outlines and details of contemporary biology. They have shown that many stimulating problems emerge when analytic skills are turned towards the life-sciences, particularly if one does not feeI con strained to stay only with theoretical parts of biology, but can range over to more medical parts of the spectrum. At the same time, biology itself has had one of the most fruitful yet turbulent periods in its whole history, and more and more biologists have grown to see that many of the probl | | 出版日期 | Book 1981 | | 关键词 | Karl R; Popper; evolution; philosophy of biology; reduction; science | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8443-1 | | isbn_softcover | 978-90-277-1250-9 | | isbn_ebook | 978-94-009-8443-1Series ISSN 1566-659X Series E-ISSN 2215-1974 | | issn_series | 1566-659X | | copyright | D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1981 |
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