caa a22 4500 605448361 CHVBK 20210128100136.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10539-015-9485-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10539-015-9485-z Lewens Tim Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, Free School Lane, CB23 7AL, Cambridge, UK aut The nature of philosophy and the philosophy of nature [Elektronische Daten] Peter Godfrey-Smith: Philosophy of Biology . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014 [Tim Lewens] Peter Godfrey-Smith's introduction to the philosophy of biology is excellent. This review questions one implication of his book, namely that Darwin's case for the efficacy of natural selection was hampered by his ignorance of the particulate nature of inheritance. I suggest, instead, that Darwin was handicapped by an inability to effectively engage in quantitative population thinking. I also question Godfrey-Smith's understanding of the role that Malthusian struggle plays in linking natural selection to the origination of new adaptive traits, and I raise problems for his defence of apparently unproblematic conceptions of human nature. Finally, I highlight the welcome conception of a ‘philosophy of nature' developed by Godfrey-Smith. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2015 William Bateson nationallicence R. A. Fisher nationallicence Peter Godfrey-Smith nationallicence Human nature nationallicence Natural selection nationallicence Biology & Philosophy Springer Netherlands 30/4(2015-07-01), 587-596 0169-3867 30:4<587 2015 30 10539 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-015-9485-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 review-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-015-9485-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Lewens Tim Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, Free School Lane, CB23 7AL, Cambridge, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Biology & Philosophy Springer Netherlands 30/4(2015-07-01), 587-596 0169-3867 30:4<587 2015 30 10539