ISBN:
1283456117
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9789400719514
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9781283456111
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
,
v.: digital
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2012 Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Science and Law Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 282
Parallel Title:
Print version Philosophy of Behavioral Biology
DDC:
570.1
Keywords:
Philosophy (General)
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Human genetics
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Biology Philosophy
;
Science Philosophy
;
Animal behavior
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Applied psychology
;
Behavior
;
Biology
;
Philosophy
;
Verhaltensforschung
;
Philosophie
Abstract:
This volume provides a broad overview of issues in the philosophy of behavioral biology, covering four main themes: genetic, developmental, evolutionary, and neurobiological explanations of behavior. It is both interdisciplinary and empirically informed in its approach, addressing philosophical issues that arise from recent scientific findings in biological research on human and non-human animal behavior. Accordingly, it includes papers by professional philosophers and philosophers of science, as well as practicing scientists. Much of the work in this volume builds on presentations given at th
Description / Table of Contents:
Philosophy of Behavioral Biology; Contents; Contributors; Part I: Introduction; Chapter 1: The Philosophy of Behavioral Biology; 1.1 Introduction; 1.1.1 Background; 1.1.2 Motivation & Content; 1.1.3 Audience; 1.1.4 Structure; 1.2 Summaries of the Chapters; 1.2.1 Part I: Introduction; 1.2.2 Part II: Genetic Explanations of Behavior; 1.2.3 Part III: Developmental Explanations of Behavior; 1.2.4 Part IV: Evolutionary Explanations of Behavior; 1.2.5 Part V: Neurobiological Explanations of Behavior; Chapter 2: Knowledge for What? Monist, Pluralist, Pragmatist Approaches to the Sciences of Behavior
Description / Table of Contents:
2.12.2; 2.3; 2.4; 2.5; References; Part II: Genetic Explanations of Behavior; Chapter 3: Genome Wide Association Studies of Behavior are Social Science; 3.1 GWAS and Its Discontents; 3.2 Background; 3.3 The Missing Heritability Problem; 3.4 Why not EWAS?; 3.5 Searching for Causes in Social Science; 3.6 Within Family Designs and the Nonshared Environment; 3.7 The Missing Environment Problem; 3.8 GWAS and EWAS; 3.9 Genomic Social Science and Social Scientific Genomics; 3.10 Conclusion; References; Chapter 4: Genetic Traits and Causal Explanation; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Contrastive Explanation
Description / Table of Contents:
4.3 A definition4.4 Objectivity and Context; 4.5 Relation to Previous Literature; 4.6 Traits Versus Dispositions; References; Part III: Developmental Explanations of Behavior; Chapter 5: From Cell-Surface Receptors to Higher Learning: A Whole World of Experience; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Taking Development Seriously; 5.2.1 Preformationism, Epigenesis, and the Modern Consensus; 5.2.2 Beyond Nature and Nurture; 5.2.3 Explanatory Categories of Behavior; 5.2.4 Extragenetic Inheritance and Developmental Niche Construction; 5.2.5 Environmental Regulation of Gene Expression; 5.2.6 A New Epigenesis
Description / Table of Contents:
5.2.7 Reclaiming the Environment5.3 Experience and Learning: from Subtle Influences to Obvious Connections; 5.3.1 Naked Behavior: the Loss of Internal Cognition and the Natural Environment; 5.3.2 Simple Learning Systems; 5.4 Synthesizing Development and Learning; 5.4.1 The Role of Epigenetic Mechanisms in Development and Learning; 5.4.2 Learning and the Provisioning of Experience as (part of) Development; 5.4.3 The Development of Learning; 5.4.4 The Quest for New Distinctions; 5.5 Conclusion; References
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 6: Re-Conceiving Nonhuman Animal Knowledge Through Contemporary Primate Cognitive Studies6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Terms of the Discussion; 6.3 On Chimpanzee Hunters (of Knowledge) and (Evidence) Gatherers; 6.4 Knowing Success; 6.5 On Why this Matters; 6.6 Conclusions; References; Part IV: Evolutionary Explanations of Behavior; Chapter 7: Evolving the Future: Sketching a Science of Intentional Change; 7.1 All organisms are capable of changing in response to their environments; 7.2 Some kinds of phenotypic plasticity can be described by the paradoxical phrase "rigidly flexible"
Description / Table of Contents:
7.3 Other kinds of phenotypic plasticity are based on more open-ended processes that count as evolutionary in their own right
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
DOI:
10.1007/978-94-007-1951-4
URL:
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