Processes of life : essays in the philosophy of biology / John Dupre.
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TextLanguage: Publication details: Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2012.Description: viii, 350 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: - 9780198701224 (pbk.)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-329) and index.
Introduction
I. Science
1. The Miracle of Monism
2. What's the Fuss about Social Constructivism?
3. The Inseparability of Science and Values
II. Biology
4. The Constituents of Life 1: Species, Microbes and Genes
5. The Constituents of Life 2: Organisms and Systems
6. Understanding Contemporary Genomics
7. The Polygenomic Organism
8. It is not Possible to Reduce Biological Explanations to Explanations in Chemistry and/or Physics
9. Postgenomic Darwinism
III. Microbes
10. Size Doesn't Matter: Towards a More Inclusive Philosophy of Biology, (with Maureen O'Malley)
11. Metagenomics and Biological Ontology, (with Maureen O'Malley)
12. Varieties of living things: Life at the intersection of lineage and metabolism, (with Maureen O'Malley)
13. Emerging Sciences and New Conceptions of Disease: Or, Beyond the Monogenomic Differentiated Cell Lineage
IV. Humans
14. Against Maladaptationism: or What's Wrong with Evolutionary Psychology
15. What Genes Are, and Why There Are No 'Genes For Race'
16. Causality and Human Nature in the Social Sciencestionary psychology -- What genes are, and why there are no 'genes for race' -- Causality and human nature in the social sciences.
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