『Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Biology, Third Edition』

Elliott Sober (ed.)

(2006年刊行,The MIT Press [Bradford Book], ISBN:0262195496[hbk] / ISBN:0262693380[pbk])



初版(1984年)が725ページ,第2版(1994年)がぐっとスリムになって506ページ.ところが,今回の第3版は再び厚くなって612ページ.もちろん,ページ数だけでなく,セクション構成も版によって少しずつ差し替えがある.




【目次】
Preface ix
Contributors xxvii

I. Fitness

1. The Propensity Interpretation of Fitness | Susan K. Mills and John H. Beatty 3
2. The Two Faces of Fitness | Elliott Sober 25

II. Units of Selection

3. Excerpts from Adaptation and Natural Selection | George C. Williams 41
4. Levels of Selection: An Alternative to Individualism in Biology and the Human Sciences | David Sloan Wilson 63

III. Adaptationism

5. The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme | Stephen Jay Gould and Richard C. Lewontin 79
6. Optimization Theory in Evolution | John Maynard Smith 99

IV. Women in the Evolutionary Process

7. Empathy, Polyandry, and the Myth of the Coy Female | Sarah B. Hrdy 131
8. Pre-theoretical Assumptions in Evolutionary Explanations of Female Sexuality | Elisabeth Lloyd 161

V. Evolutionary Psychology

9. Toward Mapping the Evolved Functional Organization of Mind and Brain | John Tooby and Leda Cosmides 175
10. Evolutionary Psychology: A Critique | David J. Buller 197

VI. Laws in Evolutionary Theory

11. The Evolutionary Contingency Thesis | John H. Beatty 217
12. Two Outbreaks of Lawlessness in Recent Philosophy of Biology | Elliott Sober 249

VII. Reductionism

13. 1953 and All That: A Tale of Two Sciences | Philip Kitcher 261
14. Why the Antireductionist Consensus Won't Survive the Case of Classical Mendelian Genetics | C. Kenneth Waters 283
15. The Multiple Realizability Argument Against Reductionism | Elliott Sober 301

VIII. Essentialism and Population Thinking

16. Typological versus Population Thinking | Ernst Mayr 325
17. Evolution, Population Thinking, and Essentialism | Elliott Sober 329

IX. Species

18. A Matter of Individuality | David L. Hull 363
19. Choosing Among Alternative "Phylogenetic" Species Concepts | David A. Baum and Michael J. Donoghue 387

X. Phylogenetic Inference

20. Cases in Which Parsimony and Compatibility Methods Will Be Positively Misleading | Joseph Felsenstein 409
21. The Logical Basis of Phylogenetic Analysis | James Farris 423

XI. Race-Social Construction or Biological Reality?

22. Why There Are No Human Races | Kwame Anthony Appiah 455
23. A New Perspective on the Race Debate | Robin O. Andreasen 477

XII. Cultural Evolution

24. Does Culture Evolve? | Joseph Fracchia and Richard C. Lewontin 505
25. Models of Cultural Evolution | Elliott Sober 535

XIII. Evolutionary Ethics

26. Moral Philosophy as Applied Science | Michael Ruse and Edward O. Wilson 555
27. Four Ways of "Biologicizing" Ethics | Philip Kitcher 575
Index 587