This book is a venture in the metaphysics of science, the exploration of the most basic
features of the world implied or presupposed by science. One of its main aims is to …

It has become customary to conceptualize the living cell as an intricate piece of machinery,
different to a man-made machine only in terms of its superior complexity. This familiar …

During the fifty years since President Nixon declared the “War on Cancer”, those inside and
outside the cancer community have witnessed the systematic moving of the goalposts …

This Element is an introduction to the metaphysics of biology, a very general account of the
nature of the living world. The first part of the Element addresses more traditionally …

In Pragmatism's Evolution, Trevor Pearce demonstrates that the philosophical tradition of
pragmatism owes an enormous debt to specific biological debates in the late 1800s …

This paper distinguishes two ways in which Kant's ideas concerning the relation between
teleology and biological organization have been taken up in contemporary philosophy of …

Process philosophy offers a metaphysical foundation for domestication studies. This
grounding is especially important given the European colonialist origin of 'domestication'as …

The greatest intellectual revolutions are those that lead to such a profound reorientation in
our habits of thought that following their occurrence it becomes almost impossible to …

This paper addresses theoretical challenges, still relevant today, that arose in the first
decades of the twentieth century related to the concept of the organism. During this period …

In recent years, biologists and philosophers of science have argued that evolutionary theory
should incorporate more seriously the idea of 'reciprocal causation.'This notion refers to …