McGill-Queen's University Press announces the recent publication of a book called 
Philosophy of Biology, by Brian Garvey.  

Biology raises distinct questions not only for philosophy of science but for
metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics. This comprehensive new textbook for a
rapidly growing field provides students with an up-to-date presentation of the
key philosophical issues. The text is organized in four parts. The first part
covers the philosophical challenges posed by evolution and evolutionary biology,
beginning with Darwin's central argument in the Origin of Species. Individual
chapters cover natural selection, creationism, the selfish gene, alternative
units of selection, developmental systems theory, adaptionism, and issues in
macroevolution. The second part examines philosophical questions arising in
connection with biological traits, function, nature and nurture, and biological
kinds, followed by an examination of metaphysical questions, biology's relation
with the traditional concerns of philosophy of science, and how evolution has
been introduced into the epistemological debates.

The final section considers the relevance of biology to questions about ethics,
religion, and human nature. Technicalities are made accessible to the
non-biologist, while still maintaining philosophical subtleties. The text is
thus relevant to individuals at various levels of study.

For further information, see: http://mqup.mcgill.ca/book.php?bookid=2139

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