Recent philosophy of biology: a review.
Academia is subdivided into separate disciplines, most of which are quite discrete. In this review I trace the interactions between two of these disciplines: biology and philosophy of biology. I concentrate on those topics that have the most extensive biological content: function, species, systematics, selection, reduction and development. In the final section of this paper I touch briefly on those issues that biologists and philosophers have addressed that do not have much in the way of biological content.
Department of Philosophy, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208-1315, USA. d-hull@northwestern.edu
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D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D001695:Biology; D002965:Classification; D006801:Humans; D010684:Philosophy; D012641:Selection, Genetic; D013045:Species Specificity