The Significance of Philosophy of Biology: A Historical Approach

Journal of Philosophical Theological Research 9 (33):97-120 (2007)
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In the philosophy of a particular science, there presents some questions and answers respecting that science, and the philosophy of Biology is one of the philosophies-of. In our scholarly society, there are some questions to which the philosophy of Biology can reply. On the other hand, it propounds new questions and answers. Pointing to some of these questions and answers, the author discusses on the opinions of Aristotle and Muslims, theory of evolution in the 19th century and two problems in the 20th century.

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