Studies in the philosophy of biology reduction and related problems - Ayala, Francisco José 1934-2023; Dobzhansky, Theodosius 1900-1975 (Macmillan, 1974)
Contents: Introductory remarks / Theodosius Dobzhansky -- From Aristotle to Democritus via Darwin / G. Montalenti -- Evolutionary theories after Lamarck and Darwin / Ernest Boesiger -- Problem of molecular recognition by a selective system / Gerald M. Edelman -- Geometric model of reduction and emergence / Peter Medawar -- Changing strategies: a comparison of reductionist attitudes in biological and medical research in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / June Goodfield -- Cerebral activity and consciousness / John C. Eccles -- Reductionism in biology / William H. Thorpe -- Unjustified variation and selective retention in scientific discovery / Donald T. Campbell -- Reduction, hierarchies and organicism / Morton Beckner -- 'Downward causation' in hierarchically organised biological system / Donald T. Campbell -- On the relations between compositional and evolutionary theories / Dudly Shapere -- Problems of rationality in biology / Henryk Skolimowski -- Chance, necessity and purpose / Charles Birch -- Polynomistic determination of biological processes / Bernhard Rensch -- Scientific reduction and the essential incompleteness of all science / Karl B. Popper -- Adaptive shifts and evolutionary novelty: a compositionist approach / G. Ledyard Stebbins -- Chance and creativity in evolution / Theodosius Dobzhansky -- Concept of biological progress / Francisco J. Ayala -- On chance and necessity / Jacques Monod. - Proceedings of the conference on Problems of reduction in biology held at the Study and Conference Center of the Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio, Italy, from 9 to 16 September 1972, includes bibliographies and index