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Studies in the Philosophy of Biology

Reduction and Related Problems

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  • © 1974

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Editors:
  1. Francisco Jose Ayala

    1. Department of Genetics, University of California, Davis, USA

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  2. Theodosius Dobzhansky

    1. Department of Genetics, University of California, Davis, USA

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introductory Remarks

    • Theodosius Dobzhansky
    Pages 1-2

  3. From Aristotle to Democritus via Darwin: A Short Survey of a Long Historical and Logical Journey

    • G. Montalenti
    Pages 3-19

  4. Evolutionary Theories after Lamarck and Darwin

    • Ernest Boesiger
    Pages 21-44

  5. The Problem of Molecular Recognition by a Selective System

    • Gerald M. Edelman
    Pages 45-56

  6. A Geometric Model of Reduction and Emergence

    • Peter Medawar
    Pages 57-63

  7. Changing Strategies: A Comparison of Reductionist Attitudes in Biological and Medical Research in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

    • June Goodfield
    Pages 65-86

  8. Cerebral Activity and Consciousness

    • John C. Eccles
    Pages 87-107

  9. Reductionism in Biology

    • W. H. Thorpe
    Pages 109-138

  10. Unjustified Variation and Selective Retention in Scientific Discovery

    • Donald T. Campbell
    Pages 139-161

  11. Reduction, Hierarchies and Organicism

    • Morton Beckner
    Pages 163-177

  12. ‘Downward Causation’ in Hierarchically Organised Biological Systems

    • Donald T. Campbell
    Pages 179-186

  13. On the Relations Between Compositional and Evolutionary Theories

    • Dudley Shapere
    Pages 187-204

  14. Problems of Rationality in Biology

    • Henryk Skolimowski
    Pages 205-224

  15. Chance, Necessity and Purpose

    • Charles Birch
    Pages 225-239

  16. Polynomistic Determination of Biological Processes

    • Bernhard Rensch
    Pages 241-258

  17. Scientific Reduction and the Essential Incompleteness of All Science

    • K. R. Popper
    Pages 259-284

  18. Adaptive Shifts and Evolutionary Novelty: A Compositionist Approach

    • G. Ledyard Stebbins
    Pages 285-306

  19. Chance and Creativity in Evolution

    • Theodosius Dobzhansky
    Pages 307-338

  20. The Concept of Biological Progress

    • Francisco J. Ayala
    Pages 339-355
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Genetics, University of California, Davis, USA

    Francisco Jose Ayala, Theodosius Dobzhansky

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Studies in the Philosophy of Biology

  • Book Subtitle: Reduction and Related Problems

  • Editors: Francisco Jose Ayala, Theodosius Dobzhansky

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-01892-5

  • Publisher: Red Globe Press London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Macmillan Publishers Limited 1974

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 390

  • Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave

  • Topics: Philosophy of Biology

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