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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Kim Sterelny |
ISBN: | 0521642310 9780521642316 0521645379 9780521645379 |
OCLC Number: | 232651950 |
Description: | pages cm. |
Contents: | Part I. Overview: 1. Evolution and agency: a user's guide; Part II. Replication and Interaction: 2. Return of the gene (with Philip Kitcher); 3. The gxtended replicator (with Kelly Smith and Mike Dickison); 4. The return of the group; Part III. Evolution and Macroevolution: 5. Punctuated equilibrium and macroevolution; 6. Explanatory pluralism in evolutionary biology; 7. Darwin's tangled bank; Part IV. The Descent of the Mind: 8. Where does thinking come from? A commentary on Peter Godfrey Smith's Complexity and the Function of Mind in Nature; 9. Basic minds; 10. Intentional agency and the metarepresentation hypothesis; 11. Situated agency and the descent of desire; 12. The evolution of agency. |
Series Title: | Cambridge studies in philosophy and biology. |
Responsibility: | Kim Sterelny. |
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'... a wonderful collection of essays. Everyone interested in the philosophy of biology and in evolutionary philosophy of mind should read these essays.' Erkenntnis
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