Navigating Values in Scientific Recommendations

This is the first-ever handbook to cover the vibrant philosophical literature on values and science.  Its 45 chapters—appearing in print here for the first

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Biology & Philosophy - In the past decades, there has been a significant shift in the labels used to describe human populations in large-scale genomic studies. Such labels are known as...

Rund 400 Millionen Pflanzenexemplare sind in Herbarien weltweit konserviert – ein wahrer Schatz, der lange vernachlässigt wurde. Heute werden die Pflanzen…

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This paper reconceptualizes social constructionism about race (hereafter SCR). While SCR is considered a hegemonic view in philosophy and academia more broadly, Hochman (2022) argues that this hegemon...

In this first systematic book-length examination of the organism-environment relationship in the life sciences, Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda addresses a crucia...

Clustering humans based on their genetic ancestry is a common practice in human genomics. Genetically similar populations can be seen as statistical c…

Philosophy of Biology has two sides: the process of science and the content of biology. We address key questions. What is the nature of life? How does evolution work and what… video Why Philosophy of ...

Organizing Committee Sandra D. Mitchell, University of Pittsburgh, HPS Holly K. Andersen, Simon Fraser University, Philosophy Dana Matthiessen, University of Minnesota, Center for the Philosophy of Sc...

The role of reciprocal causation in the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis (EES) is controversial. On the one hand, reciprocal causation is considered a key innovation of EES, thereby justifying EES’s ex...