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Is life a purely physical process? What is human nature? Which of our traits is essential to us? In this volume, Daniel McShea and Alex Rosenberg – a biologist and a philosopher, respectively – join forces to create a new gateway to the philosophy of biology; making the major issues accessible and relevant to biologists and philosophers alike. Exploring concepts such as supervenience; the controversies about genocentrism and genetic determinism; and the debate about major transitions central to contemporary thinking about macroevolution; the authors lay out the broad terms in which we should assess the impact of biology on human capacities, social institutions and ethical values.Author: Alex RosenbergAlex's new novel, "In the Shadow of Enigma" is a stand alone sequel to his best selling "The Girl From Krakow." It's a thriller that follows four characters from the end of the '40s to the height of the cold war, all in the shadow of the greatest undisclosed secret of the Second World War: Rita Feuerstahl, who learned that the German Enigma had been deciphered by the Poles just before she escaped a Polish ghetto, Gil Romero, her prewar lover whom Rita marries after the war, Stefan Saja

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Author

Rosenberg, Alex, McShea, Daniel W.

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780203564479

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Science, Biology