Sarkar Sohotra, Plutynski Anya (ed.) A Companion to the Philosophy of Biology

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Notes on ContributorsSahotra Sarkar and Anya Plutynski
Molecular Biology and Genetics
Gene Concepts
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger and Staffan Müller-Wille
Biological Information
Stefan Artmann
Heredity and Heritability
Richard C. Lewontin
Genomics, Proteomics, and Beyond
Sahotra Sarkar
Evolution
Darwinism and Neo-Darwinism
James G. Lennox
Systematics and Taxonomy
Marc Ereshefsky
Population Genetics
Christopher Stephens
The Units and Levels of Selection
Samir Okasha
Molecular Evolution
Michael R. Dietrich
Speciation and Macroevolution
Anya Plutynski
Adaptationism
Peter Godfrey-Smith and Jon F. Wilkins
Developmental Biology
Phenotypic Plasticity and Reaction Norms
Jonathan M. Kaplan
Explaining the Ontogeny of Form: Philosophical Issues
Alan C. Love
Development and Evolution
Ron Amundson
Medicine
Self and Nonself
Moira Howes
Health and Disease
Dominic Murphy
Ecology
Population Ecology
Mark Colyvan
Complexity, Diversity, and Stability
James Justus
Ecosystems
Kent A. Peacock
Biodiversity: Its Meaning and Value
Bryan G. Norton
Mind and Behavior
Ethology, Sociobiology, and Evolutionary Psychology
Paul E. Griffi ths
Cooperation
J. McKenzie Alexander
Language and Evolution
Derek Bickerton
Experimentation, Theory, and Themes
What is Life?
Mark A. Bedau
Experimentation
Marcel Weber
Laws and Theories
Marc Lange
Models
Jay Odenbaugh
Function and Teleology
Justin Garson
Reductionism in Biology
Alexander Rosenberg