Agents and Goals in Evolution

Oxford: Oxford University Press (2018)
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Samir Okasha offers a critical study of agential thinking in biology, where evolved organisms are seen as agents pursuing a goal. He examines the justification for transposing concepts from rational humans to the biological world, and considers whether agential thinking is mere anthropomorphism or plays a more intellectual role in the science.

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B818.O33 2018

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9780198815082   0198815085   0192894439   9780191852909
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