ResearchGuides: Biology: Philosophy of Biology

Introductory and Survey Monographs

Darwinism, Democracy, and Race by John P. Jackson; David J. Depew
Call Number: 2nd Floor GN269 .J6 2017
ISBN: 9781138628175
The Evolution of Knowledge by Jürgen Renn
Call Number: 2nd Floor Q175 .R392 2020
ISBN: 9780691171982
Brill's Companion to the Philosophy of Biology by Andrea Borghini; Elena Casetta
Call Number: 2nd Floor QH331 .B6513 2019
ISBN: 9789004383081
The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science by Stathis Psillos (Editor); Martin Curd (Editor)
Call Number: Q175 .R685 2008
The Species Problem by Richard A. Richards
Call Number: QH83 .R468 2010
Aristotle to Zoos: A Philosophical Dictionary of Biology by Peter Brian Medawar; J. S. Medawar
Call Number: QH302.5 .M4 1983
Biology and Ideology from Descartes to Dawkins by Denis R. Alexander (Editor); Ronald L. Numbers (Editor)
Call Number: QH331 .B4785 2010
The Cambridge Companion to the Philosophy of Biology by Robert J. Richards (Editor); David L. Hull (Editor)
Call Number: QH331 .C35 2007
Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Biology by Francisco J. Ayala and Robert Arp
Call Number: QH331 .C667 2010
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Biology by Michael Ruse
Call Number: QH331 .O93 2008
Sex and Death: an introduction to the Philosophy of Biology by Kim Sterelney and Paul W. Griffiths
Call Number: QH331 .S85 1999
Biology Is Technology by Robert H. Carlson
Call Number: TP248.2 .C38 2010
Biological Individuality by Scott Lidgard; Lynn K. Nyhart (Editor)
ISBN: 9780226446318

Journal Articles

The web pages of several journals on the philosophy of biology often offer free summaries of their articles and the means to efficiently search through them according to topic, author, and other categories.

Acta biotheoretica
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Acta biotheoretica
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Biology & Philosophy
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Biology & Philosophy
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Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences

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