Books

This book develops a philosophical account that reveals the major characteristics that make an explanation in the life sciences reductive and distinguish them from non-reductive explanations. ...

This volume brings together debates about explanation in the philosophy of biology and in the philosophy of history. It explores two major points of contact between the two fields: First, ...

This volume is the result of the 15th Münster Lectures in Philosophy hosted by the University of Münster. The basic idea of the Lectures is to give advanced students of the Department the ...

What is the level of organization on which natural selection operates? Are genes, organisms or groups the entities that are selected in adaptive evolutionary processes? This book discusses recent