Cambridge University Press is pleased to announce two new additions to the
Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology series

Evolutionary Ethics and Contemporary Biology
Giovanni Boniolo
Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy,
Gabriele De Anna
University of St Andrews, Scotland
Editors

The essays collected in this volume deal with the limits of evolutionary
explanations, the justifications of ethics, and methodological issues
concerning evolutionary accounts of ethics, among other topics. They offer
deep insights into the origin and purpose of human moral capacities and of
moral systems.

•     Includes a thorough interaction between philosophers and scientists,
exploring the theme of evolutionary ethics
•     Written by a team of international contributors from the worlds of
philosophy and biological science
•     Offers a homogeneity of purposes and treatments

Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology
2006 / 220 pp.
85629-9 / Hardback /  $75.00



Reasoning in Biological Discoveries
Essays on Mechanisms, Interfield Relations, and Anomaly Resolution
Lindley Darden
University of Maryland, College Park

Published here for the first time, Darden summarizes the philosophy of
discovery and elaborates on the role that mechanisms play in biological
discovery. Throughout the book, she uses historical case studies to extract
advisory reasoning strategies for discovery. Examples in genetics,
molecular biology, biochemistry, immunology, neuroscience, and evolutionary
biology reveal the process of discovery in action.

•      Presents a new philosophy of discovery as an extended, rational
process
•      Presents an original and compelling synthesis of philosophy,
history, and biology
•      Provides reasoning strategies for discovering mechanisms in biology,
a task in which biologists often engage

Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology
2006 / 360 pp.
85887-9 / Hardback / $75.00

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http://www.cambridge.org/us/series/sSeries.asp?code=CSPB

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