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9780465097487 | Basic Books, January 26, 2016, cover price $26.99
Product Description: Tim Lewens aims to understand what it means to take an evolutionary approach to cultural change, and why it is that this approach is often treated with suspicion. Convinced of the exceptional power of natural selection, many thinkers--typically working in biological anthropology, cognitive psychology, and evolutionary biology--have suggested it should be freed from the confines of biology, and applied to cultural change in humans and other animals...read more
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9780199674183 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 18, 2015, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Tim Lewens aims to understand what it means to take an evolutionary approach to cultural change, and why it is that this approach is often treated with suspicion.
Product Description: Much recent thought on the ethics of new biomedical technologies, and work in ethics and political philosophy more generally, is committed to hidden and contestable views about the nature of biological reality. This selection of essays by Tim Lewens, a leading expert in the field, teases out these biological foundations of bioethical writing and subjects them to scrutiny...read more
Hardcover:
9780198712657 | Oxford Univ Pr, March 8, 2015, cover price $49.50 | About this edition: Much recent thought on the ethics of new biomedical technologies, and work in ethics and political philosophy more generally, is committed to hidden and contestable views about the nature of biological reality.
Product Description: How can we determine an acceptable level of risk? Should these decisions be made by experts, or by the people they affect? How should safety and security be balanced against other goods, such as liberty? This is the first collection to examine the philosophical dimensions of these pressing practical problems...read more
Paperback:
9780415422840 | Routledge, July 30, 2007, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: How can we determine an acceptable level of risk?
Miscellaneous:
9780203962596 | Routledge, May 14, 2007, cover price $32.95
Hardcover:
9780415346375 | Routledge, January 30, 2007, cover price $120.00
Paperback:
9780415346382 | Routledge, January 30, 2007, cover price $33.95
Miscellaneous:
9780203597132 | Routledge, October 30, 2006, cover price $27.95
Product Description: In Organisms and Artifacts, Tim Lewens investigates the analogical use of the language of design in evolutionary biology. Uniquely among the natural sciences, biology uses descriptive and explanatory terms more suited to artifacts than organisms...read more
Hardcover:
9780262122610 | Bradford Books, April 1, 2004, cover price $34.00 | About this edition: In Organisms and Artifacts, Tim Lewens investigates the analogical use of the language of design in evolutionary biology.
Paperback:
9780262621991 | Bradford Books, September 1, 2005, cover price $4.75 | About this edition: In Organisms and Artifacts, Tim Lewens investigates the analogical use of the language of design in evolutionary biology.
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