According to process ontology in the philosophy of biology, living world is better understood as processes rather than substantial individuals. Within this perspective, an organism does not consist a hierarchy structures like machine, but dynamic processes, dynamically maintained and stabilized at different time scales. With respect, two processual approaches on enzymes by Stein (Hyle Int J Phi...

The methodology for evolutionary thought study at universities is an urgent problem, since, unlike school biology, the university version lacks unified methodological approaches that allow most effective organization of learning process. This paper discusses development a studying mechanisms and methods speciation in implementation interdisciplinary approach. When considering problem doctrine s...

G. E. Moore’s diatribe against the naturalistic fallacy in 1903 set the stage for most of twentieth-century moral philosophy. The main protagonists over the next sixty years were intuitionists and emotivists, both of whom were convinced by Moore that empirical science is irrelevant to moral philosophy and common moral beliefs. Even in the 1970s and 1980s, when a wider array of moral theories en...

This report describes the road map we followed at our university to accommodate three main factors: financial pressure within the university system; desire to enhance the learning experience of undergraduates; and motivation to increase the prominence of the discipline of developmental biology in our university. We engineered a novel, multi-year undergraduate developmental biology program which...

of Dissertation Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Biology in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Northeastern University, December 2010 Northeastern University Boston, MA December 2010

OF DISSERTATION Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Biology in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Northeastern University, January, 2012

History and Philosophy of Biology by Robert Kretsinger could as well have been called ‘History and Philosophy of Science’ as it reaches well beyond the realm of biology and includes historical advances made in mathematics, physics and chemistry. Robert Kretsinger is an experienced Commonwealth Professor of Biology at the University of Virginia. In terms of research he has produced a wealth of b...