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BIOLOGY

SUB-PAGES

Sub-Topics:

• Bio-Criticism (Literary Darwinism)

ASSOCIATIONS

• American Society for Bioethics and Humanities

• International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology

CONFERENCES

2010:

• Philosophy of Biology @ Madison Workshop, First Biennial Philosophy of Biology Workshop, Department of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, May 21-23

2009:

• Biological Explanation: Systems, Levels and Causes, Philosophical Foundations for Systems Biology and the Seminar in Science Studies, University of Oslo, December 10-12
  Translating Bioethics and Humanities, Annual Meeting, American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, Washington DC, October 15
• Annual Meeting, International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology, Emmanuel College, University of Sydney, July 12-16

• Life of the Cell: Philosophy and History of Cell Research, Egenis: ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society, University of Exeter, April 23-24

• Evolution, the Environment, and Responsible Knowledge, Department of Philosophy, University of Central Florida, January 26-28

2008:

• Physics Meets Biology: Perspectives from Philosophy, History, and Science, Royal Society of Edinburgh, November 18-20

• Themes in the Metaphysics of Chemistry and Biology, Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Bristol, June 23-25
• The Return of the Environment in Concepts of Heredity, Development and Evolution, Division of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Leeds, May 15-16

2007:

• Getting Underneath the Fact: Natural Categories and Biological Facts as Historical and Emergent Objects, Centre for Science Studies and the Centre for the Study of Environment, Technology and Culture (CSEC), University of Lancaster, August 28-29

• Biennial Meeting, International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB), Centre for Genomics in Society, University of Exeter, July 25-29

• Formalizing Purpose?  On the Pas de Deux between Formal and Final Cause through the History of Biology, Programme in the Philosophy of Biology, University of Exeter, and Egenis, July 23-24

• Chance in Evolution, 6th Annual Conference on Philosophy of Biology, Center for Philosophy of Biology, Duke University, April 6-8

2006:

• 3QBC: Idealization, Mechanism and Reduction: New Directions in the Philosophy of Proximal Biology, Emmanuel College, University of Queensland, St Lucia campus, December 15-17

• Philosophy of Biology Workshop, Department of Philosophy, SUNY, Buffalo, October 14-15

• Philosophical and Social Dimensions of Microbiology, ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society (Egenis), University of Exeter, July 13-14

• The Emotions as Norm Enforcers, 5th Annual Conference on Philosophy of Biology, Center for Philosophy of Biology, Duke University, April 28-30

2005:

• Towards a Philosophy of Systems Biology, department of Molecular Cell Physiology, Free University of Amsterdam, June 2-3

• Workshop, Philosophy of Biology, University of Stirling, May 13-15

• Evolution of Cognition, 4th Annual Conference on Philosophy of Biology, Center for Philosophy of Biology, Duke University, April 23-24

2004:

• Future Directions in the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology, University of California, Davis, and University of San Francisco, September 23-26

• Fabricated Nature?  Biotechnology, Theology and Ethics, Centre for Religion and the Biosciences, University College Chester, July 8-11

• Emotion, Evolution and Ethics, 3rd Annual Conference on Philosophy of Biology, Center for Philosophy of Biology, Duke University, April 3-4

2003:

• 25 Years After the Panglossian Spandrels, 2nd Annual Conference on Philosophy of Biology, Center for Philosophy of Biology, Duke University, April 11-13

2002:

• Relationship Between Evolution and Development, 1st Annual Conference on Philosophy of Biology, Center for Philosophy of Biology, Duke University, June 14-16

2001:

2000:

Annual:

COURSES

JOURNALS

• Acta Biotheoretica: an International Journal on the Mathematical and Philosophical Foundations of Biological and Biomedical Science

• Biology and Philosophy

• Biosemiotics

• History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences

• Philosophy and Theory in Biology

• Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences

PERSONS

Philosophers of Biology:

• Edward O. Wilson (1929 - )

• Richard Dawkins (1941 - )

• Stephen Jay Gould (1941 - 2002)

• Philip Kitcher (1947 - )

Rhetoricians:

• Greg Myers (1954 - )

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Philosophy of Biology:

    • Hull, David, and Michael Ruse, eds.  The Philosophy of Biology.  Oxford: OUP, .

    • Ruse, Michael, and Paul Edwards, eds.  Philosophy and Biology. 

  • Rhetoric of Biology:

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Philosophy of Biology:

    • Darden, Lindley.  Reasoning in Biological Discoveries: Essays on Mechanisms, Interfield Relations, and Anomaly Resolution.  Cambridge: CUP, 2006.

    • Harms, William F.  Information and Meaning in Evolutionary Processes.  Cambridge: CUP, 2004.

    • Myers, Greg.  "Texts as Knowledge Claims: the Social Construction of Two Biology Articles."  Social Studies of Science 15 (1985): 593-630.

    • Okasha, Samir.  Evolution and the Levels of Selection.  Oxford: OUP, 2006.

    • Sober, Elliott.  Evidence and Evolution: the Logic Behind the Science.  Cambridge: CUP, 2008.

    • Venkatesan, Priya.  Molecular Biology in Narrative Form: a Study of the Experimental Trajectory of Science.  Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2006.

    • Wilson, Robert A.  Genes and the Agents of Life: the Individual in the Fragile Sciences.  Cambridge: CUP, 2005.

  • Rhetoric of Biology:

    • Condit, Celeste Michelle.  The Meanings of the Gene: Public Debates about Human Heredity.  Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1999.

    • Halloran, S. Michael.  “The Birth of Molecular Biology: an Essay in the Rhetorical Criticism of Scientific Discourse.”  Rhetoric Review 3.1 (1984): 70-83.

    • Martin, Emily.  "The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Role."  Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 16.3 (1991): 485-501.

On-Line:

• Archives:

  • Philosophy of Biology:

  • Rhetoric of Biology:

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• Selected Individual Works:

  • Philosophy of Biology:

  • Rhetoric of Biology:

    • Moore, Randy: Writing About Biology: How Rhetorical Choices Can Influence the Impact of a Scientific Paper

    • Myers, Greg: Stories and Styles in Two Molecular Biology Articles (1988)

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Philosophy of Biology:

    • Hull, David L., and Michael Ruse, eds.  Cambridge Companion to the Philosophy of Biology.  Cambridge: CUP, 2007.

    • O'Hear, Anthony, ed.  Philosophy, Biology and Life.  Cambridge: CUP, 2006.

  • Rhetoric of Biology:

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• Selected Individual Works:

  • Philosophy of Biology:

    • Garvey, Brian.  Philosophy of Biology.  Montreal: McGill-Queen's UP, 2007.

    • Sober, Elliott.  Philosophy of Biology. 

    • Sterelny, Kim, and Paul Griffiths.  Sex and Death: an Introduction to Philosophy of Biology. 

  • Rhetoric of Biology:

On-Line:

• Philosophy of Biology:
  • Boyd, Brian: Purpose-Driven Life The American Scholar (Spring 2009)
  • Dunn, Rob: The Trouble with Biodiversity Seed Magazine October 7, 2008
  • Griffiths, Paul: Philosophy of Biology (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
  • Holcomb, Harmon, and Jason Byron: Sociobiology (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
  • University of Indiana: Ethnobiology
  • Wikipedia Encyclopedia:
    • Biology
    • Ecology
    • Evolution
    • Evolutionary Biology
    • Genetics
    • Philosophy of Biology
    • Sociobiology
• Rhetoric of Biology:

UNIVERSITY PROGRAMMES / RESEARCH CENTRES / RESEARCH PROJECTS

Australasia:

• University of Queensland: Philosophical, Historical and Socio-Cultural Studies of Bioscience

Europe:

• UK:
  • University of Exeter:
    • ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society (Egenis)
    • MA in Critical and Philosophical Studies of Biology

USA:

• Duke University: Center for Philosophy of Biology

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