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Download this eBook How to Study Animal Minds
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How to Study Animal Minds


Kristin Andrews


Comparative psychology, the multidisciplinary study of animal behavior and psychology, confronts the challenge of how to study animals we find cute and easy to anthropomorphize, and animals we find odd and easy to objectify, without letting these biases negatively...

Publication date: 2020-06-25
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Reduction and Mechanism


Alex Rosenberg


Reductionism is a widely endorsed methodology among biologists, a metaphysical theory advanced to vindicate the biologist's methodology, and an epistemic thesis those opposed to reductionism have been eager to refute. While the methodology has gone from strength to...

Publication date: 2020-06-04
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Download this eBook Inheritance Systems and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis
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Inheritance Systems and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis


Eva Jablonka , Marion J. Lamb


Current knowledge of the genetic, epigenetic, behavioural and symbolic systems of inheritance requires a revision and extension of the mid-twentieth-century, gene-based, 'Modern Synthesis' version of Darwinian evolutionary theory. We present the case for this by first...

Publication date: 2020-06-04
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Dispositionalism


Anne Sophie Meincke


According to dispositional realism, or dispositionalism, the entities inhabiting our world possess irreducibly dispositional properties – often called ‘powers’ – by means of which they are sources of change. Dispositionalism has become increasingly popular among...

Publication date: 2020-04-08
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Download this eBook The Missing Two-Thirds of Evolutionary Theory
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The Missing Two-Thirds of Evolutionary Theory


Robert N. Brandon , Daniel W. Mcshea


In this Element, we extend our earlier treatment of biology's first law. The law says that in any evolutionary system in which there is variation and heredity, there is a tendency for diversity and complexity to increase. The law plays the same role in biology that...

Publication date: 2020-03-26
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The Panenmentalist Philosophy of Science


Amihud Gilead


This book presents a philosophy of science, based on panenmentalism: an original modal metaphysics, which is realist about individual pure (non-actual) possibilities and rejects the notion of possible worlds. The book systematically constructs a new and novel way of...

Publication date: 2020-03-06
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Download this eBook The Challenge of Evolution to Religion
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The Challenge of Evolution to Religion


Helen De Cruz , Johan De Smedt


This Element focuses on three challenges of evolution to religion: teleology, human origins, and the evolution of religion itself. First, religious worldviews tend to presuppose a teleological understanding of the origins of living things, but scientists mostly...

Publication date: 2020-02-13
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Philosophy of Immunology


Thomas Pradeu


Immunology is central to contemporary biology and medicine, but it also provides novel philosophical insights. Its most significant contribution to philosophy concerns the understanding of biological individuality: what a biological individual is, what makes it unique,...

Publication date: 2020-02-13
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Games in the Philosophy of Biology


Cailin O'connor


This is an Element surveying the most important literature using game theory and evolutionary game theory to shed light on questions in the philosophy of biology. There are two branches of literature that the book focuses on. It begins with a short introduction to game...

Publication date: 2020-02-13
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Download this eBook Conceptions of Set and the Foundations of Mathematics
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Conceptions of Set and the Foundations of Mathematics


Luca Incurvati


Sets are central to mathematics and its foundations, but what are they? In this book Luca Incurvati provides a detailed examination of all the major conceptions of set and discusses their virtues and shortcomings, as well as introducing the fundamentals of the...

Publication date: 2020-01-23
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Social Media Use in University Studies


Jolita Sliogeriene , Giedre Valunaite Oleskeviciene


This book highlights the phenomenon of social media use in university studies based on its participants’ lived experience. It will appeal both to academics and practitioners interested in the human factors in the study environments saturated with technologies of social...

Publication date: 2020-01-21
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Download this eBook Knowledge from a Human Point of View
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Knowledge from a Human Point of View


Ana-Maria Cre?U , Michela Massimi


This open access book – as the title suggests – explores some of the historical roots and epistemological ramifications of perspectivism. Perspectivism has recently emerged in philosophy of science as an interesting new position in the debate between scientific realism...

Publication date: 2019-11-29
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Download this eBook Paleoaesthetics and the Practice of Paleontology
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Paleoaesthetics and the Practice of Paleontology


Derek D. Turner


The practice of paleontology has an aesthetic as well as an epistemic dimension. Paleontology has distinctively aesthetic aims, such as cultivating sense of place and developing a better aesthetic appreciation of fossils. Scientific cognitivists in environmental...

Publication date: 2019-10-24
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Download this eBook The Role of Mathematics in Evolutionary Theory
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The Role of Mathematics in Evolutionary Theory


Jun Otsuka


The central role of mathematical modeling in modern evolutionary theory has raised a concern as to why and how abstract formulae can say anything about empirical phenomena of evolution. This Element introduces existing philosophical approaches to this problem and...

Publication date: 2019-10-17
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Mechanisms in Molecular Biology


Tudor Baetu


The new mechanistic philosophy is divided into two largely disconnected projects. One deals with a metaphysical inquiry into how mechanisms relate to issues such as causation, capacities and levels of organization, while the other deals with epistemic issues related to...

Publication date: 2019-10-10
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Ecological Models


Jay Odenbaugh


In this book, we consider three questions. What are ecological models? How are they tested? How do ecological models inform environmental policy and politics? Through several case studies, we see how these representations which idealize and abstract can be used to...

Publication date: 2019-10-10
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Scientific Knowledge and the Deep Past


Adrian Currie


Historical sciences like paleontology and archaeology have uncovered unimagined, remarkable and mysterious worlds in the deep past. How should we understand the success of these sciences? What is the relationship between knowledge and history? In Scientific Knowledge...

Publication date: 2019-08-15
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Download this eBook Trust, Accountability and Purpose
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Trust, Accountability and Purpose


Justin O'brien


The collapse of trust can be found across all of our institutions but most of all in finance. This Element seeks to answer an existential question: how to rebuild trust in distrusting times? Integrity, responsibility and accountability must be embedded into corporate...

Publication date: 2019-08-15
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Download this eBook What Science Is and How It Really Works
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What Science Is and How It Really Works


James C. Zimring


Scientific advances have transformed the world. However, science can sometimes get things wrong, and at times, disastrously so. Understanding the basis for scientific claims and judging how much confidence we should place in them is essential for individual choice,...

Publication date: 2019-07-18
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Download this eBook The Logic in Philosophy of Science
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The Logic in Philosophy of Science


Hans Halvorson


Major figures of twentieth-century philosophy were enthralled by the revolution in formal logic, and many of their arguments are based on novel mathematical discoveries. Hilary Putnam claimed that the Löwenheim-Skølem theorem refutes the existence of an objective,...

Publication date: 2019-07-11
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