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Perhaps because of it implications for our understanding of human nature, recent philosophy of biology has seen what might be the most dramatic work i...
The Logic Behind the Science
How should the concept of evidence be understood? And how does the concept of evidence apply to the controversy about creationism as well as to work i...
Concepts, Inferences, and Probabilities
A philosophical analysis of concepts and arguments used by Darwin and in contemporary evolutionary biology, sometimes using probability theory as a to...
Writing in an engaging lecture-style format, Elliott Sober shows students how philosophy is best used to evaluate many different kinds of arguments an...
Evolutionary Theory in Philosophical Focus
The Nature of Selection provides a straightforward and self-contained introduction to philosophical and biological problems in evolutionary theory. It...
Parsimony, Evolution, and Inference
Reconstructing the Past seeks to clarify and help resolve the vexing methodological issues that arise when biologists try to answer such questions as ...
A Text with Readings
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The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior
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 boo...
Essays in Evolutionary Philosophy
Elliott Sober is one of the leading philosophers of science and is a former winner of the Lakatos Prize, the major award in the field. This new collec...
Philosophical Essays on Darwin's Theory
Is it accurate to label Darwinโs theory "the theory of evolution by natural selection," given that the concept of common ancestry is at least as cen...
This book uses philosophy, science and probability to analyse why simpler theories are better than theories that are more complex....
Essays on Explanation and the Theory of History
Reconstructing Marxism explores fundamental questions about the structure of Marxist theory and its prospects for the future. The authors maintain tha...
An Anthology
This collection of readings is designed for classroom use in the growing field of evolutionary biology. It assembles articles by outstanding philosoph...
This Element analyzes the various forms that design arguments for the existence of God can take, but the main focus is on two such arguments. The firs...
Attempts to show that the simplicity of a hypothesis can be measured by attending to how well it answers certain kinds of questions....