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    Philosophical Biology of Pain.Donald Gustafson - 2000 - Southwest Philosophy Review 17 (1):9-18.
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    Philosophical Biology in Aristotle's Parts of Animals.Jason A. Tipton - 2013 - Cham: Imprint: Springer.
    This book provides a detailed analysis of Aristotle's Parts of Animals. It takes its bearings from the detailed natural history observations that inform, and in many ways penetrate, the philosophical argument. This analysis raises the question of how easy it is to clearly disentangle what some might describe as the "merely" biological from the philosophical. This book explores the notion and consequences of describing the activity in which Aristotle is engaged as philosophical biology. Do readers of (...)
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    Philosophical biology : science destructive and constructive.Julian Huxley - unknown
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    Approaches to a Philosophical Biology. Marjorie Grene.John Platt - 1969 - Isis 60 (3):399-400.
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    Approaches to a Philosophical Biology.Robert Rosthal - 1971 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 31 (4):608-610.
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    Essays in Philosophical Biology.William Morton Wheeler - 1939 - New York: Russell & Russell. Edited by George Howard Parker.
    William Morton Wheeler -- The anti-colony as an organism -- Jean-Henri Fabre -- On instincts -- The termitodoxa, or biology and society -- The organization of research -- The dry-rot of our academic biology -- Emergent evolution and the development of societies -- Carl Akeley's early work and environment -- Present tendencies in biological theory -- Hopes in the biological sciences -- Some attractions of the field study of ants -- Animal societies.
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    Hans Jonas’ Philosophical Biology.Gereon Wolters - 2001 - Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 23 (1):85-98.
    Jonas' philosophical biology is an attempt to overcome the dualism, i.e., the alienation between man and world, which characterizes both Gnostic thinking and the Heiddegerian exis­tentialist approach that Jonas had applied in its interpretation. This dualism leads both approaches to despise or, at least, to neglect nature.Jonas' philosophical biology is intended to provide an insight into the phe­nomenon of life that is more than a mere reflection of scientific episte­mology. Rather, it regards itself as a cognitively (...)
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  8. The meaning of life. Can Hans Jonas’ "philosophical biology" effectively act against reductionism in the contemporary life sciences?Roberto Franzini Tibaldeo - 2015 - Humaniora. Czasopismo Internetowe 1 (9):13-24.
    Hans Jonas’ “philosophical biology,” although developed several decades ago, is still fundamental to the contemporary reflection upon the meaning of life in a systems thinking perspective. Jonas, in fact, closely examines the reasons of modern science, and especially of Wiener’s Cybernetics and Bertalanffy’s General System Theory, and at the same time points out their basic limits, such as their having a reductionistic attitude to knowledge and ontology. In particular, the philosopher highlights the problematic consequences of scientific reductionism for (...)
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  9. Approaches to the Question, ‘What is Life?’: Reconciling Theoretical Biology with Philosophical Biology.Arran Gare - 2008 - Cosmos and History : The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy 4 (1-2):53-77.
    Philosophical biologists have attempted to define the distinction between life and non-life to more adequately define what it is to be human. They are reacting against idealism, but idealism is their point of departure, and they have embraced the reaction by idealists against the mechanistic notion of humans developed by the scientific materialists. Theoretical biologists also have attempted to develop a more adequate conception of life, but their point of departure has been within science itself. In their case, it (...)
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    "Approaches to a Philosophical Biology," by Marjorie Grene. [REVIEW]George P. Klubertanz - 1971 - Modern Schoolman 48 (3):307-307.
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  12. Molyneux’s Puzzle: Philosophical, Biological and Experimental Aspects of an Open Problem.Gabriele Ferretti - 2018 - Aphex 19.
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    The discovery of the soul and the law of its development: philosophical, biological, ethical, historical.Duncan J. Frew - 1923 - Salt Lake City, Utah: Fred T. Darvill.
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  14. Essays in Philosophical Biology.William Morton Wheeler - 1939 - Philosophy 14 (56):495-495.
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    Philosophical Perspectives on the Engineering Approach in Biology: Living Machines?Sune Holm & Maria Serban (eds.) - 2020 - New York: Routledge.
    Philosophical Perspectives on the Engineering Approach in Biology provides a philosophical examination of what has been called the most powerful metaphor in biology: The machine metaphor. The chapters collected in this volume discuss the idea that living systems can be understood through the lens of engineering methods and machine metaphors from both historical, theoretical, and practical perspectives. In their contributions the authors examine questions about scientific explanation and methodology, the interrelationship between science and engineering, and the (...)
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    The Phenomenon of Life: Toward a Philosophical Biology[REVIEW]Daniel P. Sulmasy - 2002 - Review of Metaphysics 55 (4):863-864.
    This is the third republication of Jonas’s original, first published in 1966, and previously republished in 1979 and 1982. The prestige of repeated republication generally designates a classic, and this book, while still known by too few, deserves such acclaim. As a general rule, philosophers of science concern themselves either with explaining what scientists do or with prescribing what scientists ought to do. Jonas has a different aim. He examines the fundamental underlying presuppositions of modern science, particularly biology, locates (...)
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  17. (1 other version)The Phenomenon of Life: Toward a Philosophical Biology; [Essays].Hans Jonas - 1966 - New York,: Harper & Row.
    A classic of phenomenology and existentialism and arguably Jonas's greatest work, The Phenomenon of Life sets forth a systematic and comprehensive philosophy -- an existential interpretation of biological facts laid out in support of Jonas ...
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  18. (2 other versions)The phenomenon of life, toward a philosophical biology.Hans Jonas - 1966 - Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 160:494-494.
     
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    Philosophical Issues in Aristotle's Biology.Allan Gotthelf & James G. Lennox (eds.) - 1987 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    Aristotle's biological works - constituting over 25% of his surviving corpus and for centuries largely unstudied by philosophically oriented scholars - have been the subject of an increasing amount of attention of late. This collection brings together some of the best work that has been done in this area, with the aim of exhibiting the contribution that close study of these treatises can make to the understanding of Aristotle's philosophy. The book is divided into four parts, each with an introduction (...)
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    (1 other version)The Biological Mind: A Philosophical Introduction.Justin Garson - 2014 - London: Routledge.
    For some, biology explains all there is to know about the mind. Yet many big questions remain: is the mind shaped by genes or the environment? If mental traits are the result of adaptations built up over thousands of years, as evolutionary psychologists claim, how can such claims be tested? If the mind is a machine, as biologists argue, how does it allow for something as complex as human consciousness? The Biological Mind: A Philosophical Introduction explores these questions (...)
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    Biological Individuality: Integrating Scientific, Philosophical, and Historical Perspectives.Scott Lidgard & Lynn K. Nyhart (eds.) - 2017 - Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
    Introduction: working together on individuality / Lynn K. Nyhart and Scott Lidgard -- The work of biological individuality: concepts and contexts / Scott Lidgard and Lynn K. Nyhart -- Cells, colonies, and clones: individuality in the volvocine algae / Matthew D. Herron -- Individuality and the control of life cycles / Beckett Sterner -- Discovering the ties that bind: cell-cell communication and the development of cell sociology / Andrew S. Reynolds -- Alternation of generations and individuality, 1851 / Lynn K. (...)
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    Biological Classification: A Philosophical Introduction.Richard A. Richards - 2016 - Cambridge University Press.
    Modern biological classification is based on the system developed by Linnaeus, and interpreted by Darwin as representing the tree of life. But despite its widespread acceptance, the evolutionary interpretation has some problems and limitations. This comprehensive book provides a single resource for understanding all the main philosophical issues and controversies about biological classification. It surveys the history of biological classification from Aristotle to contemporary phylogenetics and shows how modern biological classification has developed and changed over time. Readers will also (...)
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  23. Biological Autonomy: A Philosophical and Theoretical Enquiry.Alvaro Moreno & Matteo Mossio - 2015 - Dordrecht: Springer. Edited by Matteo Mossio.
    Since Darwin, Biology has been framed on the idea of evolution by natural selection, which has profoundly influenced the scientific and philosophical comprehension of biological phenomena and of our place in Nature. This book argues that contemporary biology should progress towards and revolve around an even more fundamental idea, that of autonomy. Biological autonomy describes living organisms as organised systems, which are able to self-produce and self-maintain as integrated entities, to establish their own goals and norms, and (...)
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    The Dialectical Dynamic of Life’s Self-Preservation in Hans Jonas’ Philosophical Biology.Roberto Franzini Tibaldeo & Nathalie Frogneux - 2020 - Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 41 (2):489-513.
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    Philosophical Questions and Biological Findings, Part I: Human Cooperativity, Competition, and Aggression.Marcia Pally - 2020 - Zygon 55 (4):1058-1089.
    This first part of a two‐part article illustrates how research in evolutionary biology and psychology illuminates questions arising in philosophy—specifically questions about the origins of severe, systemic aggression that arise in the mimetic theory of René Girard. Part I looks at: (i) how old the systemic practice of severe aggression is, (ii) how much results from humanity's mimetic/social and competitive nature and how much from ecological, resource, and cultural conditions, and (iii) if ecological and cultural conditions are important, might (...)
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    Philosophical problems in biology.Vincent Edward Smith - 1966 - New York,: St. John's University Press.
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    Philosophical essays on physics and biology.José Luis González Recio (ed.) - 2009 - New York: G. Olms.
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    The Phenomenon of Life: Toward a Philosophical Biology.Philip Merlan - 1967 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 28 (2):277-278.
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  29. Molecular Models of Life: Philosophical Papers on Molecular Biology.Sahotra Sarkar - 2004 - Bradford.
    Despite the transformation in biological practice and theory brought about by discoveries in molecular biology, until recently philosophy of biology continued to focus on evolutionary biology. When the Human Genome Project got underway in the late 1980s and early 1990s, philosophers of biology -- unlike historians and social scientists -- had little to add to the debate. In this landmark collection of essays, Sahotra Sarkar broadens the scope of current discussions of the philosophy of biology, (...)
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    Synthetic Biology and the Golem of Prague: Philosophical Reflections on a Suggestive Metaphor.Ulrich Charpa - 2012 - Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 55 (4):554-570.
    Not only the public debate about science but even the way scientists conceive their own work is to some extent determined by cultural images. In the case of synthetic biology, literary figures like the Golem of Prague and its successors, such as Frankenstein’s monster, seem to suggest themselves. This article reconstructs some cognitive structures underlying the surface of metaphorical thinking and shows how talking about synthetic biology as similar to Golem-making obscures important onto- logical, pragmatic, and ethical differences.
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    Philosophical Aspects of Molecular Biology.David Berlinski - 1972 - Journal of Philosophy 69 (12):319.
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    Philosophical Problems in Biology.Vincent E. Smith - 1968 - Philosophy of Science 35 (3):300-301.
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    The biological and philosophical definitions of life.M. Jeuken - 1975 - Acta Biotheoretica 24 (1-2):14-21.
    A distinction must be made between various levels of thought. For a definition of life the formulation on the level of natural sciences,i.e. the biological definition, will not be the same as the philosophical expression. The biological definition is based on thephenomenon of life, the appearance, and considers the molecular structure and functions of a cell. The philosophical definition regards thebeing and it is proposed to consider life as transcendental. It is argued that there is no opposition between (...)
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    Systems Biology: Philosophical Foundations.Fred C. Boogerd, Frank J. Bruggeman, Jan-Hendrik S. Hofmeyr & Hans V. Westerhoff (eds.) - 2007 - Boston: Elsevier.
    Systems biology is a vigorous and expanding discipline, in many ways a successor to genomics and perhaps unprecendented in its combination of biology with a ...
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  35. A Philosophical Analysis of the Role of Selection Experiments in Evolutionary Biology.David Wyss Rudge - 1996 - Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh
    My dissertation philosophically analyzes experiments in evolutionary biology, an area of science where experimental approaches have tended to supplement, rather than supercede more traditional approaches, such as field observations. I conduct the analysis on the basis of three case studies of famous episodes in the history of selection experiments: H. B. D. Kettlewell's investigations of industrial melanism in the Peppered Moth, Biston betularia; two of Th. Dobzhansky's studies of adaptive radiation in the fruit fly, Drosophila pseudoobscura; and M. Wade's (...)
     
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    A Philosophical Perspective on Evolutionary Systems Biology.Maureen A. O’Malley, Orkun S. Soyer & Mark L. Siegal - 2015 - Biological Theory 10 (1):6-17.
    Evolutionary systems biology is an emerging hybrid approach that integrates methods, models, and data from evolutionary and systems biology. Drawing on themes that arose at a cross-disciplinary meeting on ESB in 2013, we discuss in detail some of the explanatory friction that arises in the interaction between evolutionary and systems biology. These tensions appear because of different modeling approaches, diverse explanatory aims and strategies, and divergent views about the scope of the evolutionary synthesis. We locate these discussions (...)
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    Universal Biology After Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel: The Philosopher’s Guide to Life in the Universe.Richard Dien Winfield - 2018 - Cham: Springer Verlag.
    Here is a universal biology that draws upon the contributions of Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel to unravel the mystery of life and conceive what is essential to living things anywhere they may arise. The book develops a philosopher’s guide to life in the universe, conceiving how nature becomes a biosphere in which life can emerge, what are the basic life processes common to any organism, how evolution can give rise to the different possible forms of life, and what distinguishes (...)
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  38. Where Biology Meets Psychology: Philosophical Essays edited by Valerie Gray Hardcastle.Steven P. R. Rose - 2000 - Trends in Cognitive Sciences 4 (6):248-249.
     
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    Philosophical Considerations in the Teaching of Biology: Acknowledgement of Reviewers.Kostas Kampourakis - 2013 - Science & Education 22 (2):375-376.
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    In Mendel’s Mirror: Philosophical Reflections on Biology.Philip Kitcher - 2003 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    Philip Kitcher is one of the leading figures in the philosophy of science today. Here he collects, for the first time, many of his published articles on the philosophy of biology, spanning from the mid-1980's to the present. The book's title refers to Gregor Mendel, an Augustinian monk who was one of the first scientists to develop a theory of heredity. Mendel's work has been deeply influential to our understanding of our selves and our world, just as the study (...)
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    Philosophical Issues in Aristotle's Biology[REVIEW]David Depew - 1991 - Review of Metaphysics 45 (1):121-124.
    In an era when philosophers of science are turning their attention from physics to biology, and it is still common to assume that Aristotle's biological essentialism is to blame for everything that went wrong until Darwin, it is of some importance to understand how completely discredited the received picture of Aristotelian biology has become among Aristotle scholars. Reading this superbly edited book is the best way to learn this lesson. Philosophers of biology, historians of philosophy, and indeed (...)
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    Global philosophical and ecological concepts: cycles, causality, ecology and evolution in various traditions and their impact on modern biology.Rudi Jansma - 2010 - Jaipur: Prakrit Bharti Academy.
    v. I. Cycles, causality, ecology -- v. II. Evolution & appendices.
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  43. Scientific perspectivism: A philosopher of science’s response to the challenge of big data biology.Werner Callebaut - 2012 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 43 (1):69-80.
    Big data biology—bioinformatics, computational biology, systems biology (including ‘omics’), and synthetic biology—raises a number of issues for the philosophy of science. This article deals with several such: Is data-intensive biology a new kind of science, presumably post-reductionistic? To what extent is big data biology data-driven? Can data ‘speak for themselves?’ I discuss these issues by way of a reflection on Carl Woese’s worry that “a society that permits biology to become an engineering discipline, (...)
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    The Phenomenon of Life: Towards a Philosophical Biology[REVIEW]John W. Yolton - 1967 - Journal of Philosophy 64 (8):254-258.
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  45. Philosophical issues in experimental biology.Ingo Brigandt - 2006 - Biology and Philosophy 21 (3):423-435.
    Review essay of The Philosophy of Experimental Biology by Marcel Weber (Cambridge University Press, 2005).
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    (1 other version)The Understanding of Nature. Essays in the Philosophy of Biology.Robert Olby & Marjorie Grene - 1976 - Philosophical Quarterly 26 (103):192.
  47. The philosophical basis of biology, New York 1931.J. S. Haldane - 1936 - Kwartalnik Filozoficzny 13 (4):324-327.
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    Recent Philosophical Studies of Aristotle’s Biology.James G. Lennox - 1984 - Ancient Philosophy 4 (1):73-82.
  49. Species of Mind: The Philosophy and Biology of Cognitive Ethology.Colin Allen & Marc Bekoff (eds.) - 1997 - MIT Press.
    The heart of this book is the reciprocal relationship between philosophical theories of mind and empirical studies of animal cognition.
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    Dangerous Habits: Examining the Philosophical Baggage of Biological Research.Massimo Pigliucci - 2003 - Dissertation, The University of Tennessee
    Science is about conceptualizing the natural world in a way that can be understood by human beings while at the same time reflecting as much as possible what we can empirically infer about how the world actually is. Among the crucial tools that allow scientists to formulate hypotheses and to contribute to a progressive understanding of nature are the use of imagery and metaphors, on the one hand, and the ability to assume certain starting points on which to build new (...)
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