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Auteur(s) : Sober, Elliott (1948-....)
Titre(s) : Did Darwin write the Origin backwards ? [Texte imprimé] : philosophical essays on Darwin's theory / Elliott Sober
Publication : Amherst : Prometheus books, cop. 2010
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (230 p.) : ill. ; 23 cm
Comprend : Machine generated contents note1.1 ; What Is Darwin's Theory? --1.2 ; Common Ancestry
--1.3 ; Darwin's Principle --1.4 ; Exceptions to Darwin's Principle --1.5 ; Causal
and Evidential Orderings --1.6 ; Using Common Ancestry to Think about Natural Selection
--1.7 ; Tree Thinking --2.1 ; Back to the 60's --2.2 ; Human Morality --2.3 ; The
Honeybee's Barbed Stinger --2.4 ; The Risk of Anachronism --2.5 ; More on Darwin on
Morality --2.6 ; Sterile Workers in the Social Insects --2.7 ; Darwin's Disagreement
with Wallace about Hybrid Sterility --2.8 ; Darwin's General View of Group Selection
--3.1 ; Arbuthnot on "the exact balance that is maintained between the numbers of
men and women...that the Species may never fail, nor perish" --3.2 ; Bernoulli on
18/35 --3.3 ; DeMoivre[ ; ]"if we blind not ourselves with metaphysical dust"
3.4 ; Darwin's Argument from Monogamy, and His Retraction --3.5 ; Düsing's Model[
; ]Monogamy Drops Out --3.6 ; Fisher and Parental Expenditure --3.7 ; Hamilton[ ;
]Group and Individual Selection --3.8 ; Sex Ratio as a Test Case -- ; Appendix: An
Example of Hamiltonian Sex Ratio Evolution in Group with Two Foundresses --4.1 ; Darwin's
Discussions of God --4.2 ; Refining Methodological Naturalism --4.3 ; Why Evolutionary
Theory Does Not Rule Out an Intervening God --4.4 ; Should Scientific Theories Talk
Only about What Exists in Nature? --4.5 ; Are All Claims about the Supernatural Untestable?
--4.6 ; Is Violating Methodological Naturalism a Science-Stopper? --4.7 ; If Numbers,
Why Not God? --4.8 ; Concluding Comments --5.1 ; Second Thoughts about Cladistic Parsimony
and the Test of Adaptive Hypotheses --5.2 ; More on Units of Selection --5.3 ; Evolutionary
Theory and the Reality of Macroprobabilities.
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 211-224
In his latest book, Elliott Sober argues that Darwin's theory is best described not
as evolution by natural selection but as common ancestry plus natural selection."-John
Hedley Brooke, Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion and director of the
Ian Ramsey Centre, University of Oxford ; "In these essays, Elliott Sober offers analyses
of the logical structure of evolutionary theory, natural selection, and the confrontation
between naturalism and creationism."-Douglas J. Futuyma, Distinguished Professor,
Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University ; Elliott Sober offers
a reassessment of a number of aspects of Darwin's arguments in the Origin of Species.
The book integrates historical material with contemporary evolutionary ideas.-Samir
Okasha, Professor of philosophy of science, University of Bristol. --Book Jacket
Sujet(s) : Darwin, Charles (1809-1882). On the origin of the species by means of natural selection
Évolutionnisme
Sélection naturelle -- Philosophie
Indice(s) Dewey :
576.8 (23e éd.) = Évolution
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781616142308. - ISBN 1616142308 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb436005218
Notice n° :
FRBNF43600521
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