Philosophy of Biology

Dov M. Gabbay is Augustus De Morgan Professor Emeritus of Logic at the Group of Logic, Language and Computation, Department of Computer Science, King's College London. He has authored over four hundred and fifty research papers and over thirty research monographs. He is editor of several international Journals, and many reference works and Handbooks of Logic.

General Preface (D. Gabbay, P. Thagard and J. Woods)
Contents
Preface (Mohan Matthen and Christopher Stephens)
List of Contributors
I. Biography
Darwin (Michael Ruse)
Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher (Robert A. Skipper, Jr)
Haldane and the Emergence of Modern Evolutionary Theory (Sahotra. Sarkar)
Sewall Wright (James F. Crow)
Motoo Kimura (James F. Crow)
II. Evolution
Natural Selection (Christopher Stephens)
Neutralism (Anya Plutynski)
Levels of Selection (Robert A. Wilson)
What is Evolvability (Kim Sterelny)
Development: Three Grades of Ontogenetic Involvement (D.M. Walsh)
Evolution and Normativity (Michael Bradie)
Evolutionary Ethics (Catherine Wilson)
III Genetics
Genetic Analysis (Raphael Falk)
The Development of Population Genetics (Margaret Morrison)
Maximisation Principles in Evolutionary Biology (A.W.F. Edwards)
Reductionism in Biology (Alex Rosenberg)
Traits, Genes and Coding (Michael Wheeler)
IV. Taxonomy
Species, Taxonomy and Systematics (Marc Ereshefsky)
Homology and Homoplasy (Brian Hall)
Biological Conceptions of Race (Robin O. Andreasen)
V. Special Topics
Formalisations of Evolutionary Biology (Paul Thompson)
Functions (Tim Lewens)
Biological Approaches to Mental Representation (Karen Neander)
Innateness (Andre Ariew)
Artificial Life (Mark Bedau)
Index