Sex and sensibility: The role of social selection: Roughgarden, Joan: The genial gene: Deconstructing Darwinian selfishness. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009, ix+261pp, $40.00 HB, $18.95 PB

, , &
Metascience 20 (2):253-277 (2010)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

Sex and sensibility: The role of social selection Content Type Journal Article DOI 10.1007/s11016-010-9464-6 Authors Erika L. Milam, Department of History, University of Maryland, 2115 Francis Scott Key Hall, College Park, MD 20742, USA Roberta L. Millstein, Department of Philosophy, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA Angela Potochnik, Department of Philosophy, University of Cincinnati, P.O. Box 210374, Cincinnati, OH 45221, USA Joan E. Roughgarden, Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5020, USA Journal Metascience Online ISSN 1467-9981 Print ISSN 0815-0796.

Categories

Keywords

Reprint years

2011

DOI

10.1007/s11016-010-9464-6

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 91,219

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

My notes

Similar books and articles

Contingencies of the early nuclear arms race: Michael Gordin: Red cloud at dawn: Truman, Stalin, and the end of the atomic monopoly. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009, 416pp, US$28 HB.S. S. Schweber, Alex Wellerstein, Ethan Pollock, Barton J. Bernstein & Michael D. Gordin - 2011 - Metascience 20 (3):443-465.
Historiography in a metaphysical mode: John G. McEvoy: The historiography of the chemical revolution: Patterns of interpretation in the history of science. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2010, xiii+328pp, £60.00, $99.00 HB.Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Jan Golinski, Lissa L. Roberts & John McEvoy - 2011 - Metascience 21 (1):41-57.
Counterfactuals all the way down?: Marc Lange: Laws and lawmakers: Science, metaphysics, and the laws of nature. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009, 280 pp, $99 HB, $24.95 PB.Jim Woodward, Barry Loewer, John W. Carroll & Marc Lange - 2011 - Metascience 20 (1):27-52.
Selection bias?: Stephen G. Brush: Choosing selection: The revival of natural selection in Anglo-American evolutionary biology, 1930–1970. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2009, viii+183pp, $35.00 PB.Henry M. Cowles - 2010 - Metascience 20 (2):343-346.
Mechanism and modernity: Gregor Schiemann: Hermann von Helmholtz’s mechanism: The loss of certainty. Dordrecht: Springer, 2009, x+282 pp, €106.95 HB.Jutta Schickore - 2010 - Metascience 20 (2):369-372.
Models all the way down: Paul N. Edwards: A vast machine: Computer models, climate data, and the politics of global warming. Boston MA: The MIT Press, 2010, 528pp, $32.95/£24.95 HB.Naomi Oreskes - 2011 - Metascience 21 (1):99-104.
Scientific representation: A long journey from pragmatics to pragmatics: Bas C. van Fraassen: Scientific representation: Paradoxes of perspective. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2008, xiv+408pp, £35.00 HB. [REVIEW]James Ladyman, Otávio Bueno, Mauricio Suárez & Bas C. van Fraassen - 2010 - Metascience 20 (3):417-442.
Revisiting the history of relativity: Richard Staley: Einstein’s generation: The origins of the relativity revolution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008, x+494pp, $38 PB, $98 HB.Lewis Pyenson, Sean F. Johnston, Alberto A. Martínez & Richard Staley - 2011 - Metascience 20 (1):53-73.
Cybernetics as a usable past: Andrew Pickering: The cybernetic brain: Sketches of another future. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010, x+526pp, US$55.00 HB.Ronald R. Kline - 2011 - Metascience 20 (3):519-524.
Alexander von Humboldt: Counternarrative of a dissenter? : Laura Dassow Walls: The passage to cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the shaping of America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009, xv+404pp, US$35.00 HB. [REVIEW]Andreas W. Daum - 2010 - Metascience 20 (3):577-579.
How should philosophy of social science proceed?: Chrysostomos Mantzavinos : Philosophy of the social sciences: Philosophical theory and scientific practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009, 344pp, £18.99 PB.Harold Kincaid - 2011 - Metascience 21 (2):391-394.
The physics and metaphysics of identity and individuality: Steven French and Décio Krause: Identity in physics: A historical, philosophical, and formal analysis. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006, 440 pp, £68.00 HB.Don Howard, Bas C. van Fraassen, Otávio Bueno, Elena Castellani, Laura Crosilla, Steven French & Décio Krause - 2010 - Metascience 20 (2):225-251.

Analytics

Added to PP
2010-11-25

Downloads
159 (#115,603)

6 months
11 (#196,102)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author Profiles

Angela Potochnik
University of Cincinnati
Roberta L. Millstein
University of California, Davis

Citations of this work

Feminist implications of model-based science.Angela Potochnik - 2012 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 43 (2):383-389.
Darwin’s explanation of races by means of sexual selection.Roberta L. Millstein - 2012 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 43 (3):627-633.
Feminist Philosophy of Biology.Carla Fehr & Letitia Meynell - 2024 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Add more citations

References found in this work

The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex.Charles Darwin - 1898 - New York: Plume. Edited by Carl Zimmer.
The origin of species.Charles Darwin - 1859 - New York: Norton. Edited by Philip Appleman.

View all 22 references / Add more references