The Philosophy of Biology di Grene M. e Depew D. Cambridge Univ. Press 1. Aristotle and after 2. Descartes, Harvey and the emergence of modern mechanism 3. The eighteenth century: Buffon 4. The eighteenth century II: Kant the development of German biology 5. Before Darwin I: A continental controversy 6. Before Darwin II: British controversies about geology and natural theology 7. Darwin 8. Evolution and heredity from Darwin to the rise of genetics 9. The modern evolutionary synthesis and its discontents 10. Some themes in recent philosophy of biology: The species problem, reducibility, function and teleology 11. Biology and human nature 12. The philosophy of biology and the philosophy of science