Includes bibliographical references and index

What kind of science is Darwinian biology, and what are its ontological presuppositions? -- Materialism, actualism, and science : what's modern about modern science? / Peter McLaughlin -- Evolution, paleontology, and metaphysics / David Oldroyd -- Darwin's a priori insight : the structure and status of the principle of natural selection / Christian Illies -- Darwinism and naturalism : identical twins or just good friends? / Michael Ruse -- Darwinism's multiple ontologies / David Depew -- Is a non-naturalistic interpretation of Darwinism possible? -- A systems theory of evolution / Rupert Riedl -- "It might be called reverence" / Phillip R. Sloan -- Darwin's metaphysics of mind / Robert J. Richards --

Are there metaphysical implications of Darwinian evolutionary biology? / Jean Gayon -- On the problem of direction and goal in biological evolution / Dieter Wandschneider -- Objective idealism and Darwinism / Vittorio Hösle -- What is the epistemological relevance of Darwinism? -- The new evolutionary ontology and its implications for epistemology / Michael T. Ghiselin -- How is it that we can know this world? : new arguments in evolutionary epistemology / Gerhard Vollmer -- Darwinism as a theory for finite beings / Marcel Weber -- Darwinism and the place of the human -- Evolutionary selection and the nature of humanity / Richard D. Alexander -- Darwinism, dualism, and biological agency / Lenny Moss -- Darwinism : neither biologistic nor metaphysical / Bernd Graefrath