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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Number Of Pages: 248
Publication Date: 2003-04-14
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0521599547
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780521599542
Binding: Paperback
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Book Description:
Intended for biology students, this philosophical commentary on biology makes science students' studies more interesting by offering an easy way of studying the philosophy of science, as well as engaging in debates about the social and political implications of biology. It is a unique biology textbook because it adopts an explicitly philosophical approach.
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Contents
Introduction 1
Facts?
The problem with cannabis 5
The making of the cell theory 9
The edge of the amoeba 19
How cells evolved 24
The philosophy of science 31
Reductionism
An introduction 38
Examples of reductionist research 42
The two faces of reductionism 44
The general problem of scientific explanation 47
Explanation through causation 50
Metaphysics and biology 52
A review of terminology 54
Anti-reductionist biology today 58
A case study: phenylketonuria (PKU) 61
In conclusion: the problem of determinism 64
Evolution
A philosophical introduction 67
The work of Charles Darwin 69
The question of time 73
The case of Jacques D´eprat 77
The myth of the coelacanth 81
Life and the illusion of progress 85
Proximate and ultimate causes in biology 89
The concept of adaptation – and its teleology 91
The scope of natural selection 95
The ‘unit’ of natural selection 106
The Darwin wars 107
Biology and animals
Ethics in science: an introduction 109
Interventions: an introduction 114
Vivisection and dissection 116
Animal minds, human morals and the study of ethics 121
In conclusion 137
Controversies in biology
Controversies in biology – and in the media 140
The crisis of ‘mad cow disease’ 142
Genetically modified crops 150
Xenotransplantation 156
Making sense of genes
An introduction to the Human Genome Project 163
The philosophy of the Human Genome Project 166
The history of the Human Genome Project 170
Genetic testing: the case of Huntington’s disease 172
Testing for the ‘gene’ for breast cancer 175
The future of the Human Genome Project 178
The commercialisation of the genome 180
Gene testing and the doctor–patient relationship 182
Biology and politics
How politics enters biology 187
The politics of Darwin 191
Eugenics: the genetic improvement of people 193
Measuring intelligence 196
Eugenics and genetics 198
Biology and the Nazis 202
The world view from evolutionary psychology 206
Research ethics
A conflict of interest 210
A code of conduct 212
Peer review 216
A historical overview 218
Theories of ethics 224
Index 229
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Number Of Pages: 248
Publication Date: 2003-04-14
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0521599547
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780521599542
Binding: Paperback
Quote:
Book Description:
Intended for biology students, this philosophical commentary on biology makes science students' studies more interesting by offering an easy way of studying the philosophy of science, as well as engaging in debates about the social and political implications of biology. It is a unique biology textbook because it adopts an explicitly philosophical approach.
Quote:
Contents
Introduction 1
Facts?
The problem with cannabis 5
The making of the cell theory 9
The edge of the amoeba 19
How cells evolved 24
The philosophy of science 31
Reductionism
An introduction 38
Examples of reductionist research 42
The two faces of reductionism 44
The general problem of scientific explanation 47
Explanation through causation 50
Metaphysics and biology 52
A review of terminology 54
Anti-reductionist biology today 58
A case study: phenylketonuria (PKU) 61
In conclusion: the problem of determinism 64
Evolution
A philosophical introduction 67
The work of Charles Darwin 69
The question of time 73
The case of Jacques D´eprat 77
The myth of the coelacanth 81
Life and the illusion of progress 85
Proximate and ultimate causes in biology 89
The concept of adaptation – and its teleology 91
The scope of natural selection 95
The ‘unit’ of natural selection 106
The Darwin wars 107
Biology and animals
Ethics in science: an introduction 109
Interventions: an introduction 114
Vivisection and dissection 116
Animal minds, human morals and the study of ethics 121
In conclusion 137
Controversies in biology
Controversies in biology – and in the media 140
The crisis of ‘mad cow disease’ 142
Genetically modified crops 150
Xenotransplantation 156
Making sense of genes
An introduction to the Human Genome Project 163
The philosophy of the Human Genome Project 166
The history of the Human Genome Project 170
Genetic testing: the case of Huntington’s disease 172
Testing for the ‘gene’ for breast cancer 175
The future of the Human Genome Project 178
The commercialisation of the genome 180
Gene testing and the doctor–patient relationship 182
Biology and politics
How politics enters biology 187
The politics of Darwin 191
Eugenics: the genetic improvement of people 193
Measuring intelligence 196
Eugenics and genetics 198
Biology and the Nazis 202
The world view from evolutionary psychology 206
Research ethics
A conflict of interest 210
A code of conduct 212
Peer review 216
A historical overview 218
Theories of ethics 224
Index 229
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