Logic and Philosophy of Science: Review of Genetics and Philosophy: An Introduction

摘要

This is an important book. In it Paul Griffiths and Karola Stotz present a wide perspective on the issue of inheritance and its meaning for both the experimentalist and the philosopher. So extensive and challenging a text makes one wonder whether a less specific title, such as Heredity and Philosophy, would be more appropriate. The book provides a comprehensive analysis of classical genetics and the biology of heredity as well as a thorough and wide-ranging examination and assessment of much of the modern literature on molecular and postgenomic research. In addition, it presents the reader with meticulous philosophical discussions thereof. Griffiths and Stotz's presentations and conclusions are impressively well-grounded, even when the latter may appear at times difficult to accept.