Course Topic: ?Philosophy of Biology. On sex, death, cooperation, cancer, and morality?
Literature:
Textbooks:
Laland, Kevin N., & Brown, Gillian R. (2011). Sense and nonsense: Evolutionary perspectives on human behaviour. Oxford University Press.
Sterelny, Kim, & Griffiths, Peter E. (199). Sex and death: An introduction to philosophy of biology. University of Chicago press.
Further readings:
Clarke, Ellen (2011). Plant individuality and multilevel selection theory, In: Kim Sterelny and Brett Calcott (eds.), The Major Transitions Revisited, The MIT Press, pp. 227-250
Clarke, Ellen (2013). The multiple realizability of biological individuals, Journal of Philosophy 110(8): 413-435.
Dawkins, Richard (1989), Chapter Two: The Replicators, In: The Selfish Gene, Oxford University Press, pp. 12-20
Gould, Steven J. (1980). Double trouble. In: The panda’s thumb: More reflections in natural history. New York: Norton: pp. 35-47
Humphrey, Nicholas (1976). The social function of intellect. In: Growing points in ethology (eds. P. P. G. Bateson & R. A. Hinde), Cambridge University Press: 303–317.
Jablonka, Eva and Lamb, Marion (2006), Chapter Four: Epigenetic Inheritance Systems. In: Evolution in Four Dimensions, Bradford Books, pp. 113-154
Kitcher, P. (2006). Between Fragile Altruism and Morality: Evolution and the Emergence of Normative Guidance. In: Evolutionary Ethics and Contemporary Biology (Eds. G. Boniolo and G. De Anna), Cambridge University Press: 159-177.
Kitcher, Phillip. (2007). Does ‘race’have a future?. Philosophy & Public Affairs, 35(4), 293-317
Lloyd, Elisabeth A. (2009). The case of the female orgasm: Bias in the science of evolution. Harvard University Press. [selections]
Moll, Henrike, and Tomasello, Michael (2007). Co-operation and human cognition: The Vygotskian intelligence hypothesis. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 362: 639-648.
Sterelny, Kim (2003). Chapter 6: Reconstructing Hominid Evolution. In: Thought in a Hostile World: The Evolution of Human Cognition, Blackwell,
Vickers, A. Leah., & Kitcher, Phillip. (2003). Popsociobiology reborn: The evolutionary psychology of sex and violence. In C.B. Travis (ed.), Evolution, gender, and rape, The MIT Press: pp. 139-168.