Agents And Goals In Evolution

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.

• | Author: Samir Okasha
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Aug 21, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 272 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Philosophy
• | ISBN-10: 0198815085
• | ISBN-13: 9780198815082