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Agents and goals in evolution / Samir Okasha.

By: UK : Oxford Oxford Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: First editionDescription: xiv, 254 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780198815082
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 116 23 O41
Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-249) and index.

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.