Agents and Goals in Evolution

Name: Agents and Goals in Evolution
Brand: Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press

Agents and Goals in Evolution\nby Samir Okasha\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 2\u20133 working days (dispatched today if ordered before 3pm).\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Samir Okasha\nTitle: Agents and Goals in Evolution\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Evolution\nPublisher: Oxford University Press\nPublication year: 2020\nISBN-13: 9780192894434\nISBN-10: 0192894439\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nSamir Okasha approaches evolutionary biology from a philosophical perspective in Agents and Goals in Evolution, analysing a mode of thinking in biology called agential thinking. He considers how the paradigm case involves treating an evolved organism as if it were an agent pursuing a goal, such as survival or reproduction, and seeing its phenotypic traits as strategies f.