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生物学哲学作为一门学科形成于20世纪中叶以后。经过半个世纪的发展,生物学哲学不断走向成熟并在新世纪出现繁荣,主要表现在:生物学哲学的著作大量涌现,论文的数量也不断增多,越来越多专业生物学哲学家走上学术舞台,研究的问题的广度和深度也在加强。生物学哲学的研究路径有三种方式:用生物学成果解决一般哲学问题,用生物学成果解决一般科学哲学问题,以及用逻辑和哲学分析和思辨的方法解决生物学中的概念和理论难题。近年来,生物学哲学争论的主要问题包括自主论和分支论的争论、功能解释和目的论解释在生物学中的合理性、物种的本质、自然选择的单位、小进化和大进化的关系、进化发育生物学对进化论的挑战、人的心灵的主要特征是否是在石器时代形成、文化进化等等。
Philosophy of biology was formed as a discipline after the mid-20th century. After half a century of development, the philosophy of biology continues to mature and flourish in the new century. The main achievements are as follows: there are numerous books of biological philosophy, and the number of papers is also on the increase. More and more professional philosophers of biology are embarking The breadth and depth of the academic arena and research issues are also on the rise. There are three ways to study the philosophy of biology: to solve general philosophical problems with biological achievements, to solve general scientific philosophical problems with biological achievements, and to solve the conceptual and theoretical problems in biology by means of logical and philosophical analysis and speculation. In recent years, the main problems in the debate of biological philosophy include the argument of autonomy and branch theory, the rationality of functional explanation and teleological explanation in biology, the nature of species, the unit of natural selection, the relationship between small evolution and great evolution, Evolutionary and developmental biology challenge to evolution, the main feature of human mind is formed in the Stone Age, cultural evolution and so on.