300019 SE Ausgewählte Probleme in der Philosophie der Biologie (2010W)

Readings:

1. What is philosophy of biology?

Brandon R, Rosenberg A (2000) Philosophy of biology. In: Philosophy of Science Today (Clark P, Hawley K, eds), 147—180. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Callebaut W (2005) Again, what the philosophy of biology is not. Acta Biotheoretica 53: 93—122.

Krohs U, Toepfer G (2005) Einleitung. In: Philosophie er Biologie: Eine Einführung (Krohs U, Toepfer G, Hg), 7—15. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp.

Rosenberg A ([1985] 2002) Biology and its philosophy. In: Philosophy of Science (Balashov Y, Rosenberg A, eds), 22—36. New York: Routledge.

2. Reduction/emergence

Dupré J (2010) It is not possible to reduce biological explanations to explanations in chemistry and/or physics. In: Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Biology (Ayala F, Arp R, eds), 32—47. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.

Feyerabend P ([1962] 2002) Explanation, reduction, and empiricism. In: Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Readings (Balashov Y, Rosenberg A, eds), 141—162. New York: Routledge.

Keller EF (2010) It is not possible to reduce biological explanations to explanations in chemistry and/or physics. In: Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Biology (Ayala F, Arp R, eds), 19—31. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.

Sober E ([1999] 2010) The multiple realizability argument against reductionism.
In: Philosophy of Biology: An Anthology (Rosenberg A, Arp R, eds), 235—249. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.

3. Adaptationism and its limits

Gould SJ, Vrba ES ([1982] 1998) Exaptation—A missing term in the science of form. In: The Philosophy of Biology (Hull DL, Ruse M, eds), 52—71. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Lewens T (2009) Seven types of adaptationism. Biology and Philosophy 24: 161—182.

Stegmann U (2005) Die Adaptationismus-Debatte. In: Philosophie er Biologie: Eine Einführung (Krohs U, Toepfer G, Hg), 287—303. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp.

West-Eberhard MJ ([1992] 1998) Adaptation: Current usages. In: The Philosophy of Biology (Hull DL, Ruse M, eds), 8—14. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

4. Do genes encode information about phenotypic parts?

Godfrey-Smith P (2004) Genes do not enoode information for phenotypic traits. In: Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Science (Hitchcock C, ed), 275—289. Oxford: Blackwell.

Keller EF (2009) Rethinking the meaning of biological information. Biological Theory 4: 159—166.

Maynard Smith J (2000) The role of information in biology. Philosophy of Science 67: 177—194.

Sarkar S (2004) Genes enoode information for phenotypic traits. In: Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Science (Hitchcock C, ed), 259—274. Oxford: Blackwell.

5. EvoDevo and the Evolutionary Synthesis

Amundson R ([1994] 1998) Two concepts of constraint: Adaptationism and the challenge from developmental biology. In: The Philosophy of Biology (Hull DL, Ruse M, eds), 93—116. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Laubichler MD (2010) Evolutionary developmental biology offers a significant challenge to the neo-Darwinian paradigm. In: Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Science (Hitchcock C, ed), 199—212. Oxford: Blackwell.

Minelli A (2010) Evolutionary developmental biology does not offer a significant challenge to the neo-Darwinian paradigm. In: Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Science (Hitchcock C, ed), 213—226. Oxford: Blackwell.

Müller GB (2007) Evo-devo: Extending the evolutionary synthesis. Nature Reviews Genetics 8: 942—949.