『The Philosophy of Biology: An Episodic History』

Marjorie Grene and David Depew

(2004年,Cambridge University Press,ISBN:0521643716 [hardcover] / ISBN:0521643805 [paperback])



昨年出た生物学哲学史の新刊.ことしはじめに David Hull の書評Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews: 2005年1月2日)がオンライン公開されている.Marjorie Grene さんは1910年生まれだという(え!そんなお年だったとは).




【目次】
List of Figures ix
Notes on Citations and References xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Preface xv

1. Aristotle and After 1
2. Descartes, Harvey, and the Emergence of Modern Mechanism 35
3. The Eighteenth Century I: Buffon 64
4. The Eighteenth Century II: Kant and the Development of German Biology 92
5. Before Darwin I: A Continental Controversy 128
6. Before Darwin II: British Controversies about Geology and Natural Theology 154
7. Darwin 192
8. Evolution and Heredity from Darwin to the Rise of Genetics 221
9. The Modern Evolutionary Synthesis and Its Discontents 247
10. Some Themes in Recent Philosophy of Biology: The Species Problem, Reducibility, Function, and Teleology 290
11. Biology and Human Nature 322
12. The Philosophy of Biology and the Philosophy of Science 348

References 363
Index 393