The Philosophy of Social Evolution

ISBN-13: 9780198733058 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 224 str.

Jonathan Birch

Opis

From mitochondria to meerkats, the natural world is full of spectacular examples of social behaviour. Jonathan Birch explores how the three key explanatory ideas of social evolution theory - Hamilton's rule, kin selection, and inclusive fitness - can illuminate our understanding of the social world.

Recenzje

This is a superb book. It is lucid, well written, sensible, and intellectually valuable, and the most critical parts are accessible enough for anyone willing to do a bit of homework now and then. It is available to most academic subscribers on Oxford Scholarship (and it is coming out in paperback later this year). It is an essential text for philosophy of biology and, more generally, anyone working on the evolution of cooperation. Carl Brusse & Kim Sterelny, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

O autorze

Jonathan Birch is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics and Political Science, specializing in the philosophy of evolutionary biology. His research mainly concerns the evolution of social behaviour, with a particular focus on the work of W. D. Hamilton. He has published widely on various topics in the philosophy of the life sciences, in journals such as The American Naturalist, Biological Reviews, Philosophy of Science and The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.