Philosophical Considerations in the Teaching of Biology: Introduction to Part II—Evolution, Development and Genetics

Appendix

Table of contents of Philosophical Issues in Biology Education (Springer).

Foreword Michael Ruse.

Philosophical Issues in Biology Education: Introduction Kostas Kampourakis.

• 1. What is life?—Carol Cleland & Michael Zerella.

• 2. Biological Explanation—Angela Potochnik.

• 3. What would Natural Laws in the Life Sciences be?—Marc Lange.

• 4. The Nature of Evolutionary Biology: at the Borderlands between Historical and Experimental Science—Massimo Pigliucci.

• 5. Evolutionary Theory and the Epistemology of Science—Kevin McCain & Brad Weslake.

• 6. Conceptual Change and the Rhetoric of Evolutionary Theory: ‘Force Talk’ as a Case study and Challenge for Science Pedagogy—David Depew.

• 7. Debating the Power and Scope of Adaptation—Patrick Forber.

• 8. Biology and Religion: The Case for Evolution—Francisco Ayala.

• 9. The Implications of Evolutionary Biology for Religious Belief—Denis Alexander.

• 10. Intelligent Design and the Nature of Science: Philosophical and Pedagogical Points—Ingo Brigandt.

• 11. Molecular Evolution—Michael Dietrich.

• 12. Educational Lessons from Evolutionary Properties of the Sexual Genome—John Avise.

• 13. Non-genetic Inheritance and Evolution—Tobias Uller.

• 14. Homology—Alessandro Minelli & Giuseppe Fusco.

• 15. Teaching Evolutionary Developmental Biology: Concepts, Problems and Controversy—Alan Love.

• 16. Philosophical Issues in Ecology—James Justus.

• 17. Small Things, Big Consequences: Microbiological Perspectives on Biology—Michael J. Duncan, Pierrick Bourrat, Jennifer DeBerardinis, & Maureen O’ Malley.

• 18. Essentialism in Biology—John Wilkins.

• 19. Biological Teleology: the Need for History—James Lennox & Kostas Kampourakis.

• 20. Biology’s Functional Perspective: Roles, Advantages and Organization—Arno Wouters.

• 21. Understanding Biological Mechanisms: Using Illustrations from Circadian Rhythm Research—William Bechtel.

• 22. Information in the Biological Sciences—Alfredo Marcos & Robert Arp.

• 23. Systems Biology and Education—Pierre Alain Braillard.

• 24. Putting Mendel in His Place: How Curriculum Reform in Genetics and Counterfactual History of Science Can Work Together—Annie Jamieson & Gregory Radick.

• 25. Against “Genes For”: Could an Inclusive Concept of Genetic Material Effectively Replace Gene Concepts?—Richard Burian & Kostas Kampourakis.

• 26. Current Thinking about Nature and Nurture—David Moore.

• 27. Genomics and Society: Why “Discovery” Matters—Lisa Gannett.

• 28. Philosophical Issues in Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Research—Andrew Siegel.

• 29. Ethics in Biomedical Research and Practice—Anya Plutynski.

• 30. Environmental Ethics—Roberta Millstein.