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The philosophy of biology covers a number of areas, including the nature and structure of evolutionary theory, the fossil record and its interpretation, the problems of classification, and also the nature of humans, including their beliefs about knowledge and about the courses of proper action and morality.
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Further Readings
Hull, D. L., & Ruse, M. (Eds.). (1998). Readings in the philosophy of biology: Oxford readings in philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Hull, D. L., & Ruse, M. (Eds.). (2007). Cambridge companion to the philosophy of biology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Ruse, M. (2007). The philosophy of biology (2nd ed.). Buffalo: Prometheus
Ruse, M. (2008). Oxford handbook of the philosophy of biology (edited volume). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Ruse, M. (2015). Biology: Philosophy of. In: ten Have, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05544-2_54-1
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