A Companion to the Philosophy of Biology

List of Figures.List of Tables.Notes on Contributors.Acknowledgments.Introduction (Sahotra Sarkar and Anya Plutynski).Part I Molecular Biology and Genetics.1 Gene Concepts (Hans-Jörg Rheinberger and Staffan Müller-Wille).2 Biological Information (Stefan Artmann).3 Heredity and Heritability (Richard C. Lewontin).4 Genomics, Proteomics, and Beyond (Sahotra Sarkar).Part II Evolution.5 Darwinism and Neo-Darwinism (James G. Lennox).6 Systematics and Taxonomy (Marc Ereshefsky).7 Population Genetics (Christopher Stephens).8 The Units and Levels of Selection (Samir Okasha).9 Molecular Evolution (Michael R. Dietrich).10 Speciation and Macroevolution (Anya Plutynski).11 Adaptationism (Peter Godfrey-Smith and Jon F. Wilkins).Part III Developmental Biology.12 Phenotypic Plasticity and Reaction Norms (Jonathan M. Kaplan).13 Explaining the Ontogeny of Form: Philosophical Issues (Alan C. Love).14 Development and Evolution (Ron Amundson).Part IV Medicine.15 Self and Nonself (Moira Howes).16 Health and Disease (Dominic Murphy).Part V Ecology.17 Population Ecology (Mark Colyvan).18 Complexity, Diversity, and Stability (James Justus).19 Ecosystems (Kent A. Peacock).20 Biodiversity: Its Meaning and Value (Bryan G. Norton).Part VI Mind and Behavior.21 Ethology, Sociobiology, and Evolutionary Psychology (Paul E. Griffiths).22 Cooperation (J. McKenzie Alexander).23 Language and Evolution (Derek Bickerton).Part VII Experimentation, Theory, and Themes.24 What is Life? (Mark A. Bedau).25 Experimentation (Marcel Weber).26 Laws and Theories (Marc Lange).27 Models (Jay Odenbaugh).28 Function and Teleology (Justin Garson).29 Reductionism in Biology (Alexander Rosenberg).Index.