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THE PHILOSOPHY OF BIOLOGY
The philosophy of biology is one of the most exciting new
areas in the field of philosophy and one that is attracting
much attention from working scientists. panion,
edited by two of the founders of the field, includes newly
commissioned essays by senior scholars and by up-and-
coming younger scholars who collectively examine the main
areas of the subject – the nature of evolutionary theory,
classification, teleology and function, ecology, and the prob-
lematic relationship between biology and religion, among
other topics. Up-to-date prehensive in its coverage,
this unique volume will be of interest not only to professional
philosophers but also to students in the humanities and
researchers in the life sciences and related areas of inquiry.
David L. Hull is an emeritus professor of philosophy at
Northwestern University. The author of numerous books
and articles on topics in systematics, evolutionary theory,
philosophy of biology, and naturalized epistemology, he is
a recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship and is a
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Michael Ruse is professor of philosophy at Florida State
University. He is the author of many books on evolutionary
biology, including Can a Darwinian Be a Christian? and
Darwinism and Its Discontents, both published by Cam-
bridge University Press. A Fellow of the Royal Society of
Canada and the American Association for the Advancement
of Science, he has appeared on television and radio, and he
contributes regularly to popular media such as the New York
Times, the Washington Post, and Playboy magazine.
Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008
Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008
volumes in the series of panions:
ABELARD Edited by jeffrey e. brower and kevin
guilfoy
ADORNO Edited by tom hunn
AQUINAS Edited by norman kretzmann and
eleonore stump
HANNAH ARENDT Edited by d