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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature. Steven Pinker. xviii + 509 pp. Viking, 2002. $27.95. The nature/nurture controversy is perennially frustrating. Both parties to the debate, or [...]

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996 John Dupre Department of Philosophy, Birkbeck College and School of English and American Studies, University of Exeter This book is a collection of essays by [...]

Elliott Sober is among the leading contemporary contributors to the philosophy of biology. He also has an exceptional ability to explain difficult ideas clearly. He is therefore very well equipped [...]

NOT BY DESIGN: Retiring Darwin's Watchmaker. John O. Reiss. xviii + 422 pp. University of California Press, 2009. $49.95. Followers of the debate between evolutionists and various waves of creationists, [...]

DARWINIAN REDUCTIONISM: Or, How to Stop Worrying and Love Molecular Biology. Alex Rosenberg. x + 263 pp. University of Chicago Press, 2006. $40. Alex Rosenberg is unusual among philosophers of […]

Defenders of the Truth: The Battle for Science in the Sociobiology Debate and Beyond. Ullica Segerstrale. ix + 493 pp. Oxford University Press, 2000. $30. In 1975, Harvard University Press [...]

Consilience. The Unity of Knowledge. EDWARD O. WILSON. New York, Knopf, 1998. x, 335 pp. $26 or C$34.95. ISBN 0-679-45077-7. It is not uncommon for distinguished scientists in the twilight [...]