Genes and the Agents of Life Paperback: The Individual in the Fragile Sciences Biology - Softcover

Wilson, Robert A.

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ISBN 10: 0521544955 ISBN 13: 9780521544955

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2004

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This book undertakes to rethink the place of the individual in the biological sciences, drawing parallels with the cognitive and social sciences. It includes highly accessible discussions of genetic encoding, species and natural kinds, and pluralism above the levels of selection, drawing on work from across the biological sciences.

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"Wilson provides an important new perspective on many of the key problems in the philosophy of biology through his highly original focus on the locus of agency in explanations. Any philosopher with interests in the life or human sciences will gain valuable new insights from this work." Paul E. Griffiths, University of Pittsburgh

"This is a bold, absorbing, and deeply-informed book...[Wilson's] views are often controversial and provocative, but always clearly and lucidly argued. As well as fostering productive debate within the philosophy of biology, this book has the potential to show a much wider audience why this discipline is currently so exciting." John Dupre, University of Exeter

Biografía del autor:

Robert A. Wilson was born in Broken Hill, Australia, and lives in Edmonton, Canada. He is the author or editor of five other books, including the award-winning The MIT Encyclopaedia of the Cognitive Sciences (1999) and Boundaries of the Mind (Cambridge, 2004).

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0521544955
• ISBN 13: 9780521544955
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 312