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Fitness, natural selection, common ancestry, mutation, chance, taxonomy, and adaptation are central concepts in Darwin's theory of evolution, and in the 20th and 21st century theories that grew out of it. This book uses ideas about probability to discuss philosophical questions that these concepts raise"--

Fitness, natural selection, common ancestry, mutation, chance, taxonomy, and adaptation are central concepts in Darwin's theory of evolution, and in the 20th and 21st century theories that grew out of it. This book uses ideas about probability to discuss philosophical questions that these concepts raise"--

Attempts to show that the simplicity of a hypothesis can be measured by attending to how well it answers certain kinds of questions.

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Shows students how philosophy is used to evaluate arguments and construct theories. An engaging lecture-style format, with key concepts and review qs to assist. Primary sources, secondary reading, audio, and video listed online. 8th ed adds new chapter 'Probability and Bayes' Theorem' and other material.

Reconstructing the Past seeks to clarify and help resolve the vexing methodological issues that arise when biologists try to answer such questions as whether human beings are more closely related to chimps than they are to gorillas. It explores the case for considering the philosophical idea of simplicity/parsimony as a useful principle for evaluating taxonomic theories of evolutionary relationships. For the past two decades, evolutionists hav...

Explores the design arguments for the existence of God.

Sensitive to the ways in which Darwins outlook differed from that of many biologists today, the main topics that are the focus of this bookcommon ancestry, group selection, sex ratio, and naturalismhave rarely been discussed in such penetrating detail.

The philosophy of biology has recently seen some of the most dramatic activity among the philosophies of the "special" sciences. In the second edition of this textbook, Elliot Sober introduces the reader to the most important of these developments. Sober engages both the higher level of theory and the direct implications for such controversial issues as creationism, teleology, nature versus nurture, and sociobiology. Above all, the reader will...

The theory of Ockham's razor has a history dating back to Aristotle. In this book Elliott Sober presents a clear and multidimensional study of the various different incarnations of the theory including their history, the role which they play in several different sciences, and their importance to philosophical argumentation.

This book uses philosophy, science and probability to analyse why simpler theories are better than theories that are more complex.

No matter what we do, however kind or generous our deeds may seem, a hidden motive of selfishness lurks--or so science has claimed for years. This book, whose publication promises to be a major scientific event, tells us differently. In

These essays by leading scientists and philosophers address conceptual issues that arise in the theory and practice of evolutionary biology. The third edition of this widely used anthology has been substantially revised and updated. Four new sections have been added: on women in the evolutionary process, evolutionary psychology, laws in evolutionary theory, and race as social construction or biological reality. Other sections treat fitness, un...

The Nature of Selection is a straightforward, self-contained introduction to philosophical and biological problems in evolutionary theory. It presents a powerful analysis of the evolutionary concepts of natural selection, fitness, and adaptation and clarifies controversial issues concerning altruism, group selection, and the idea that organisms are survival machines built for the good of the genes that inhabit them. "Sober's is the answering p...

Elliott Sober explores how the concept of evidence applies to creationism, natural selection and common ancestry.

Elliott Sober explores how the concept of evidence applies to creationism, natural selection and common ancestry.

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