Contributors Introduction - Michael Ruse 1. History of the Philosophy of Biology, David Hull 2. Natural Selection and the Structure of Evolutionary Theory, Michael Ruse 3. Population Thinking, Andre Ariew 4. Testing and Optimality Models, Steven Orzack 5. Teleology, Denis Walsh 6. Evolvability, Roger Sansom 7. Species and Taxonomy, Richard Richards 8. Chance and Contingency, John Beatty 9. Macroevolution, David Sepkoski 10. Molecular Biology and Reduction, Ken Waters 11. Origins of Life Studies, James Greisemer 12. Evo-Devo, Jason Robert 13. Philosophical Issues Arising from Genomics, Zac Ernst 14. Animal Behavior, Stephen Crowley and Colin Allen 15. Neurocience, Adina Roskies and Ian Gold 16. Teleological Theories of Mental Content, Karen Neander 17. Sociobiology, Evolutionary Psych, and Cultural Evolution, Matteo Mameli 18. Evolution of Moral Norms, William Harms and Brian Skyrms 19. Genes and Society, Lisa Gannett 20. The Concept of Race in Medicine, Robin Andreasen 21. Ecology and the Environment, Anya Plutynski 22. Agriculture and Agricultural Biotechnology, David Castle 23. Biology and Religion, Nancey Murphy and Jeffrey Schloss 24. Feminist Philosophy of Biology, Carla Fehr 25. Rhetoric in Biology, Ana Barahona and Vladimir Cachón

"Every department member responsible for library orders should have this volume on their list. Everyone who works in this field-biologists, sociologists, dare one say philosophers?-should have their own copy. Already, right now, I am digging into a coupleof articles pertinent to my own research." -- Michael Ruse, Program in History & Philosophy of Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, The Quarterly Review of Biology "The philosophy of biology is thriving as never before, and the hefty Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Biology --edited by the philosopher/historian Michael Ruse, who is as responsible as anyone for the field's current flourishing --is ample testament to the continuing vitality of what Ruse rightly describes in his introduction as 'an incredibly exciting area of research.'" --Philosophy in Review

Selling point: This Handbook will serve as valuable resource for students and scholars. Selling point: It collects new essays written by experienced scholars as well as more junior members of the field.

Selling point: This Handbook will serve as valuable resource for students and scholars. Selling point: It collects new essays written by experienced scholars as well as more junior members of the field.