Francisco J. Ayala is University Professor and Donald Bren Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. He was born in Madrid, and studied at the Universities of Madrid and Salamanca in Spain. In 1961, he came to Columbia University, where he obtained a Ph.D. in 1964 in genetics and evolution. In 1967, he was appointed assistant professor at Rockefeller University i...

It is an unfortunate fact of academic life that there is a sharp divide between science and philosophy, with scientists often being openly dismissive of philosophy, and philosophers being equally contemptuous of the naiveté of scientists when it comes to the philosophical underpinnings of their own discipline. In this paper I explore the possibility of reducing the distance between the two side...

This article is a brief review of Ibn Sīnā’s practical philosophy. It begins with a discussion of the Platonic, Aristotelian, and Neo-Platonic influences on Ibn Sīnā’s practical philosophy, as well as the influence of Fārābī and of Islamic religious teachings. The creative synthesis invented by Ibn Sīnā requires a particular view of the relation between religion and philosophy in such a manner ...

Abstract This paper explores how work in the philosophy of science can be used when teaching scientific content to students and training future teachers. I examine debate on concept fitness biology show conceptual pluralism constitutes a problem for change model, philosophical clarification address that problem. The case exemplifies offers tools resolve difficulties make concepts more adequate ...

SIR — Far from being dominated by scepticism about science, as Harry Collins claims, mainstream philosophy of science opposes the relativism that Collins decries. We are both philosophers of biology, a field that analyses key biological concepts such as species and genes, dissects theoretical debates in biology and examines emerging fields such as systems biology. This work often involves criti...

hegel has an overview regarding religion and its process. by passing the art, religion and philosophy, this process goes from the lowest to the highest part. this article is going to clarify the difference between the hegel's treatment of religion in various periods of his thought. it also considers the historical phenomenology of religion in hegel's philosophy. in this regard in whic...