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Pitt-Tsinghua Summer School for Philosophy of Science

Institute of Science Technology and Society, Tsinghua University • Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh

 


2008  Sandra Mitchell, Philosophy of Biology

Lectures in Philosophy of Biology

  1. Darwinian Foundations
    1. The Origin of Species Chapters 1-4 BACKGROUND
    2. E. Sober ‘Evolution, Population Thinking and Essentialism’ (CIEB, p. 161-89)
  1. Adaptation and Function
    1. Mitchell “On function” from Biological Complexity and Integrative Pluralism
    2. Bigelow and Pargetter. “Functions”. Journal of Philosophy, 1987; 84: 181-196.BACKGROUND
    3. R.C. Lewontin, "Adaptation," Scientific American 293 (1978): 212-228. BACKGROUND
  1. Molecules, Reduction and Emergence
    1. Lindley Darden and James Tabery (2005), Molecular Biology, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy BACKGROUND
    2. Ingo Brigandt (2008) Reductionism in Biology, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  1. Evolution and Development – Constraints and Causes
    1. Amundson, Ronald “Two Concepts of Constraint: Adaptationism and the Challenge from Developmental Biology” 1994 Philosophy of Science:61:556-578.
  1. Laws: How is Biology Different from Physics?
    1. Beatty, John. 1995. "The Evolutionary Contingency Thesis." In Gereon Wolters and James G. Lennox (eds.), Concepts, Theories, and Rationality in the Biological Sciences, The Second Pittsburgh-Konstanz Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. BACKGROUND
    2. Mitchell, Sandra D. 2000  “Dimensions of Scientific Law” Philosophy of Science Vol. 67, No. 2 pp. 242-265
    3. Beatty, John. 2006. "Replaying Life's Tape. Journal of Philosophy 103: 336-362. BACKGROUND

 

 
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