Biology, Society, and Values

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Kitcher, Philip (2003) “Utopian eugenics and social inequality.” Reprinted in his In Mendel’s Mirror: Philosophical Reflections on Biology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 258–282.

Kitcher, Philip (2006) “Four ways of ‘biologicizing’ ethics.” Reprinted in E. Sober (ed.) Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Biology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 575–586.

Kourany, Janet (2010) ‘A feminist primer for philosophers of science’ and ‘What feminist science studies can offer.’ Chapters 1 and 3 of Philosophy of Science after Feminism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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