Concerned with explanatory concepts in evolution, genetics, and ecology, this book contains a collection of 25 essays which provide an overview of the state of the field. It demonstrates how philosophical analysis has been able to contribute to sometimes contested areas of scientific theory making.[...]

This volume is about the many ways we perceive. In nineteen new essays, philosophers and cognitive scientists explore the nature of the individual senses, how and what they tell us about the world, and how they interrelate. They consider how the senses extract perceptual content from receptoral info[...]