『Metaphysics from a Biological Point of View』

Stephen Boulter

(2013年10月刊行,Palgrave Macmillan, Hampshire, vi+179 pp., ISBN:9781137322814 [hbk] → 版元ページ1版元ページ2

【目次】
Acknowledgements vi
Introduction 1

PART I: ON THE POSSIBILITY OF METAPHYSICS

1. A Return to Scholastic Metaphysics 7
2. The Aporetic Method and the Defence of Immodest Metaphysics 43
3. Evolutionary Biology meets Scholastic Metaphysics 66

PART II: THE TURN TO BIOLOGY

4. Counting biological individuals 83
5. Evolutionary Biology, Change, and Essentialism 98
6. Evolutionary Biology, Modality and Explanation 116
7. Evolutionary Biology and Ethics 133


Notes 147
Bibliography 170
Index 177