Sociobiology and Bioeconomics

Sociobiology, Theory of Evolution, and Bioeconomics Introduction.- I Neo-Darwinian Synthesis, Sociobiology, and the Economy of Nature.- 1 Darwinian Monism: The Economy of Nature.- 2 Coercion.- 3 Does the Second Law of Thermodynamics Refute the Neo-Darwinian Synthesis?.- II Natural Selection and Developmental Systems: Redrawing the Boundaries Between Genetic and Non-Genetic Factors of Evolution.- 4 Evolutionary and Developmental Formation: Politics of the Boundary.- 5 The Gene Is Dead - Long Live the Gene! Conceptualizing Genes the Constructionist Way.- III Redrawing the Boundaries Between the Narratives of Evolutionary Biology and the Narratives of Hermeneutics, Mythology, and Philosophy.- 6 The Role of Hermeneutics in Biology.- 7 Science and Mythology: a New "metaxu"?.- 8 What Is the Impact of a Philosophically Based Criticism of Socio-Biology on the Sientific Community?.- IV Synergetics, Symbiosis and Cooperation in Sociology and Biology.- 9 Synergetics in Sociology and Biology.- 10 Symbiosis, Mutualism and Cooperation in Biological Evolution.- V Evolutionary Biology and Economic Theory.- 11 Are Economic Systems Like Organisms?.- 12 Darwinism and Economic Theory.- 13 Evolutionary Economics and Evolutionary Biology.- Conclusion.- 14 The Theory of Evolution as Sociobiology and Bioeconomics A Critique of Its Claim to Totality.- List of Authors.- Index of Names.

Presents the current debate on the neo-Darwinian synthesis in the analysis of sociobiology and the state of the art in evolutionary economics A combination of American and European approaches Description of the redrawing of the boundary of the life and the social scienes Systematic analysis of sociobiology & evolutionary economics

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Peter Koslowski ist Gründungsdirektor des Forschungsinstituts für Philosophie Hannover und Professor für Philosophie und Politische Ökonomie an der Universität Witten/Herdecke.

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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Chapter 3 Does the Second Law of Thermodynamics Refute the Neo-Darwinian Synthesis? BRUCE H. WEBER and DAVID 1. DEPEW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 CONTENTS Partll Natural Selection and Developmental Systems: Redrawing the Boundaries Between Genetic and Non-Genetic Factors of Evolution Chapter 4 Evolutionary and Developmental Formation: Politics of the Boundary SUSAN OyAMA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .