Over the past three decades, the philosophy of biology has emerged from
the shadow of the philosophy of physics to become a respectable and
thriving philosophical subdiscipline. The authors take a fresh look at
the life sciences and the philosophy of biology from a strictly realist
and emergentist-naturalist perspective. They outline a unified and
science-oriented philosophical framework that enables the clarification
of many foundational and philosophical issues in biology. This book will
be of interest both to life scientists and philosophers.