The goal of this book is to provide an understanding of an important element of
contemporary biological research practice, namely of explanatory reduction, or more …

A metatheoretical and historiographical re-analysis of the Evolutionary Synthesis (the
process) and the Synthetic Theory (the result) leads to the following conclusion: The …

Wie entstand komplexes Leben–bis hin zum Menschen–aus der ersten Zelle? Das war die
Frage, die der Begründer der biologischen Evolutionstheorie Charles Darwin in seinerzeit …

In this chapter we first discuss the emergence of evolutionary developmental biology (evo-
devo) as a response to the essential incompleteness of the modern synthesis. In the second …

Like the philosophy of science in general, the philosophy of biology has traditionally been
mostly concerned with theories. For a variety of reasons, the theory that has by far attracted …

Warum kooperieren Menschen, warum unterstützen sie einander? Dass soziale
Beziehungen für Menschen von großem Wert sein können, ist eine Binsenweisheit.„Vitamin …

" Why is it okay to experiment on Homo troglodytes, but not on Homo sapiensT'-This is the
provocative question posed by Jared Diamond at the end of a chapter in wh ich he points …

Die Darstellung der Grundungsgeschichte des aKWI fur Biologieo stutzt sich neben einer
Fulle von Archivalien vor allem auf 29 uberlieferte und bisher nicht publizierte Gutachten …

I want to exhibit the deeper metaphysical reasons why some common ways of describing the
causal role of genes in development and evolution are problematic. Specifically, I show why …

The question of how scientists choose theories from a set of alternatives is an old one.
Traditionally, it was assumed that there are decision rules or methodological principles of …