Contributor
Hösle, Vittorio, 1960-
Imprint:Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2005.
Descriptionvii, 392 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note:Part I: WHAT KIND OF SCIENCE IS DARWINIAN BIOLOGY, AND WHAT ARE ITS ONTOLOGICAL PRESUPPOSITIONS? : 1. Materialism, actualism, and science : what's modern about modern science? / Peter McLaughlin -- 2. Evolution, paleontology, and metaphysics / David Oldroyd -- 3. Darwin's a priori insight : the structure and status of the principle of natural selection / Christian Illies -- 4. Darwinism and naturalism : identical twins or just good friends? / Michael Ruse -- 5. Darwinism's multiple ontologies / David Depew -- Part II. IS A NON-NATURALISTIC INTERPRETATION OF DARWINISM POSSIBLE? 6. A systems theory of evolution / Rupert Riedl -- 7. "It might be called reverence" / Phillip R. Sloan -- 8. Darwin's metaphysics of mind / Robert J. Richards -- 9. Are there metaphysical implications of Darwinian evolutionary biology? / Jean Gayon -- 10. On the problem of direction and goal in biological evolution / Dieter Wandschneider -- 11. Objective idealism and Darwinism / Vittorio Hösle -- Part III. WHAT IS THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL RELEVANCE OF DARWINISM? : 12. The new evolutionary ontology and its implications for epistemology / Michael T. Ghiselin -- 13. How is it that we can know this world? : new arguments in evolutionary epistemology / Gerhard Vollmer -- 14. Darwinism as a theory for finite beings / Marcel Weber -- Part IV. DARWINISM AND THE PLACE OF THE HUMAN: 15. Evolutionary selection and the nature of humanity / Richard D. Alexander -- 16. Darwinism, dualism, and biological agency / Lenny Moss -- 17. Darwinism : neither biologistic nor metaphysical / Bernd Graefrath.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
