Biology

Entry from the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Colin Allen.

A scientific hypothesis for the origin of mind based in evolutionary biology. Includes downloadable manuscript and a few graphics.

Designed for prospective and practicing elementary school teachers, provides a biology lesson, knowledge mapping, and alternative ideas for effectiveness in teaching biology.

Maintained by Michael R. Dietrich, of the Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College; includes links to web sites and online articles dealing with the philosophy of biology and related subjects.

Discussion of the beauty of evolution; explains that evolution is continuous and discontinuous at once, as is a good poem, or a work of art.

Entry from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy by Marc Ereshefsky.

Stanford Encyclopedia entry on the notion of the immune self; by Alfred Tauber.

Reviews and analyzes various attempts to define life in terms of negentropy and complexity theory.

Discussion of how altruistic behavior by organisms fits with the theory of evolution; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by Samir Okasha.

Discussion of philosophical issues related to biological diversity; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by Daniel P. Faith.

ISHPSSB brings together scholars from diverse disciplines, including the life sciences, and the history, philosophy, and social studies of science.

A philosophy paper by Tom Tyler examining the arguments on the concept of anthropomorphism.

Site dedicated to promoting post-Darwinian evolutionary science.

Weblog provides commentary and links on topics related to the philosophy of genetics.

Mario Crocco's essay examines a palindromic relationship between astrophysical-biological evolution and mind-possessing living creatures in it.

A palindromic relationship is reported between astrophysical-biological evolution and mind-possessing living creatures in it. Essay by Mario Crocco.

Directory devoted to the field by Roberta L. Millstein includes references works, societies, weblogs, journals, historians and philosophers of biology.

A list of persons, institutes, research groups and journals within theoretical biology, philosophy and history of biology, and related areas of research.

Idealist philosophy resolves a fundamental paradox in the materialist account of evolution. Essay by Axel Randrup.

Permits access to the table of contents for each of the archived issues of this journal. Also includes information for authors.

... to particular sciences (e.g. philosophy of biology or philosophy of physics) ... In the philosophy of biology, which is closely related to chemistry, we inquire ...[2008/11/24]

The philosophy of biology is a subfield of philosophy of science, which deals ... Philosophy of biology today has become a very visible, well-organized discipline ...[2008/11/22]

Science is rejected in ... Some sciences (little s) like biology stride from strength to ... Molecular biology--the study of DNA and its changes through ...[2008/11/19]

philosophy of biology Philosophical investigation of the concepts, problems, and methods of the biological sciences ... philosophy of As a special science ...[2008/11/18]

... the philosophy of science—sometimes feeds back into biology itself through ... work often resembles theoretical biology as much as pure philosophy of science. ...[2008/11/18]

... it gives us a view into the history and philosophy of science, but also because ... Aristotle's Philosophy of Biology: Studies in the Origins of Life Sciences. ...[2006/02/15]

In recent philosophy of biology (1970s to the early 1990s), the primary debate ... in biology is pervasive throughout the history of philosophy and science. ...[2008/11/19]

A lot of work was done in the philosophy of science at the beginning of the 20th ... PHILOSOPHY OF BIOLOGY. There is a branch of the philosophy of science ...[2000/08/05]

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Rosenberg, Instrumental Biology or the Disunity of Science, 1994 ... psychology, the philosophy of biology and science, protozoology, and zoology. ...[2008/02/29]