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Sociobiology and Bioeconomics

The Theory of Evolution in Biological and Economic Theory

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1999

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Editors:
  1. Peter Koslowski

    1. Hannover Institute of Philosophical Research — Forschungsinstitut für Philosophie Hannover, Centre for Ethical Economy and Business Culture, Hannover, Germany

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  • Presents the current debate on the neo-Darwinian synthesis in the analysis of sociobiology and the state of the art in evolutionary economics
  • A combination of American and European approaches
  • Description of the redrawing of the boundary of the life and the social scienes
  • Systematic analysis of sociobiology & evolutionary economics

Part of the book series: Ethical Economy (SEEP)

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Table of contents (15 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-X
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  2. Sociobiology, Theory of Evolution, and Bioeconomics Introduction

    1. Sociobiology, Theory of Evolution, and Bioeconomics Introduction

      • Peter Koslowski
      Pages 1-4

  3. Neo-Darwinian Synthesis, Sociobiology, and the Economy of Nature

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5
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    2. Darwinian Monism: The Economy of Nature

      • Michael T. Ghiselin
      Pages 7-24

    3. Coercion

      • Tim Clutton-Brock, Geoff A. Parker
      Pages 25-49

    4. Does the Second Law of Thermodynamics Refute the Neo-Darwinian Synthesis?

      • Bruce H. Weber, David J. Depew
      Pages 50-75

  4. Natural Selection and Developmental Systems: Redrawing the Boundaries Between Genetic and Non-Genetic Factors of Evolution

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77
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    2. Evolutionary and Developmental Formation: Politics of the Boundary

      • Susan Oyama
      Pages 79-104

    3. The Gene Is Dead — Long Live the Gene! Conceptualizing Genes the Constructionist Way

      • Eva M. Neumann-Held
      Pages 105-137

  5. Redrawing the Boundaries Between the Narratives of Evolutionary Biology and the Narratives of Hermeneutics, Mythology, and Philosophy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139
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    2. The Role of Hermeneutics in Biology

      • Sergey V. Chebanov
      Pages 141-172

    3. Science and Mythology: a New “metaxu”?

      • Jacques Vauthier
      Pages 173-182

    4. What Is the Impact of a Philosophically Based Criticism of Socio-Biology on the Scientific Community?

      • Aloys Hüttermann
      Pages 183-196

  6. Synergetics, Symbiosis and Cooperation in Sociology and Biology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 197-197
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    2. Synergetics in Sociology and Biology

      • Hermann Haken
      Pages 199-218

    3. Symbiosis, Mutualism and Cooperation in Biological Evolution

      • Hans-Dieter Görtz
      Pages 219-233

  7. Evolutionary Biology and Economic Theory

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 235-235
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    2. Are Economic Systems Like Organisms?

      • Mae-Wan Ho
      Pages 237-258

    3. Darwinism and Economic Theory

      • Peter T. Saunders
      Pages 259-278

    4. Evolutionary Economics and Evolutionary Biology

      • Ulrich Witt
      Pages 279-298
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Keywords

Editors and Affiliations

  • Hannover Institute of Philosophical Research — Forschungsinstitut für Philosophie Hannover, Centre for Ethical Economy and Business Culture, Hannover, Germany

    Peter Koslowski

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Sociobiology and Bioeconomics

  • Book Subtitle: The Theory of Evolution in Biological and Economic Theory

  • Editors: Peter Koslowski

  • Series Title: Ethical Economy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03825-3

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1999

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-65380-6Published: 18 February 1999

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-08470-6Published: 09 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-03825-3Published: 09 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 2211-2707

  • Series E-ISSN: 2211-2723

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 341

  • Topics: Economics, general, Anthropology, Sociology, general

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