Overview
- The first vol that sheds light on metaphysics & epistemology applying evolutionary think outside of life sci
- Brings scholars from great variety of disciplines,all of which offer their unique perspective on application
- Presents state of the art in research on topics related to evolutionary think from scientific disciplines
Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 478)
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Front Matter
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How Can Disciplines Benefit from, or Contribute to, Evolutionary Frameworks?
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Generalizations of Evolutionary Theory: Common Principles or Explanatory Structures?
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Why Should We Be Skeptical of Generalizations of Darwinism?
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About this book
This volume aims to clarify the epistemic potential of applying evolutionary thinking outside biology, and provides a survey of the current state of the art in research on relevant topics in the life sciences, the philosophy of science, and the various areas of evolutionary research outside the life sciences. By bringing together chapters by evolutionary biologists, systematic biologists, philosophers of biology, philosophers of social science, complex systems modelers, psychologists, anthropologists, economists, linguists, historians, and educators, the volume examines evolutionary thinking within and outside the life sciences from a multidisciplinary perspective. While the chapters written by biologists and philosophers of science address theoretical aspects of the guiding questions and aims of the volume, the chapters written by researchers from the other areas approach them from the perspective of applying evolutionary thinking to non-biological phenomena. Taken together, the chapters in this volume do not only show how evolutionary thinking can be fruitfully applied in various areas of investigation, but also highlight numerous open problems, unanswered questions, and issues on which more clarity is needed. As such, the volume can serve as a starting point for future research on the application of evolutionary thinking across disciplines.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Martina Valković is Research Assistant in the ANR-DFG project The Explanatory Scope of Generalized Darwinism: Towards Criteria for Evolutionary Explanations Outside Biology (GenDar) in the Institute of Philosophy, Leibniz University Hannover, and a visiting researcher at Radboud University Nijmegen.
André Ariew is Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy, University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri.
Hugh Desmond is Postdoctoral Researcher in the ANR-DFG project The Explanatory Scope of Generalized Darwinism: Towards Criteria for Evolutionary Explanations Outside Biology (GenDar) in the Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques (IHPST), University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Antwerp.
Philippe Huneman is Principal Investigator in the ANR-DFG project The Explanatory Scope of Generalized Darwinism: Towards Criteria for Evolutionary Explanations Outside Biology (GenDar) and Research Director in the Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris.
Thomas A. C. Reydon is Principal Investigator in the ANR-DFG project The Explanatory Scope of Generalized Darwinism: Towards Criteria for Evolutionary Explanations Outside Biology (GenDar) and Professor of Philosophy of Science and Technology in the Institute of Philosophy and the Centre for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences (CELLS), Leibniz University Hannover. He is also Visiting Fellow in the Socially Engaged Philosophy of Science Group (SEPOS) and the Center for Interdisciplinarity (C4I) at Michigan State University.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Evolutionary Thinking Across Disciplines
Book Subtitle: Problems and Perspectives in Generalized Darwinism
Editors: Agathe du Crest, Martina Valković, André Ariew, Hugh Desmond, Philippe Huneman, Thomas A. C. Reydon
Series Title: Synthese Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33358-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-33357-6Published: 27 June 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-33360-6Due: 28 July 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-33358-3Published: 26 June 2023
Series ISSN: 0166-6991
Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 528
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Science, Evolutionary Biology, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of the Social Sciences