Evolution and its rivals

Synthese

Glenn Branch, James H. Fetzer (eds)

2011

Propensities and probabilities

Synthese

James H. Fetzer (ed)

2002

Aspects of artificial intelligence

James H. Fetzer (ed)

Springer - Berlin

1988

Sociobiology and epistemology

James H. Fetzer (ed)

Springer - Berlin

1985

The papers presented in this special collection focus upon conceptual, the­ oretical and epistemological aspects of sociobiology, an emerging discipline that deals with the extent to which genetic factors influence or control patterns of behavior as well as the extent to which patterns of behavior, in turn, influence or control genetic evolution. The Prologue advances a compre­ hensive acco/unt of the field of gene-culture co-evolution, where Lumsden and Gushurst differentiate between "classical" sociobiology (represented especially by Wilson's early work) and current research on human socio­ biology (represented by Lumsden and Wilson's later work), which emphasizes interplay between genes, minds, and culture.