[Revised entry by Jay Odenbaugh and Paul Griffiths on October 19, 2024.
Changes to: Main text, Bibliography]
The growth of philosophical interest in biology over the past fifty years reflects the increasing prominence of the biological sciences in the same period. There is now an extensive literature on many different biological topics, and it would be impossible to summarize this body of work in this single entry. Instead, this entry sets out to explain what the philosophy of biology is, and why philosophy and biology matter to each other. A list of the entries in the encyclopedia which address specific topics in the philosophy of…
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