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Web Resources
The single most comprehensive gathering of online resources for the history and philosophy of biology is Roberta Millstein's amazing site.
For teaching about recent biological and biomedical developments in a "Science and Society" spirit, the websites related to the Wellcome Trust, and particularly the Wellcome blog, can be useful.
For teaching about the philosophy of biology, the best resource is the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — immensely useful for preparing lectures and building bibiliographies (and see Millstein's site above for a useful selection of its phil-bio articles).
Other sites of interest include:
- the Cambridge philbio guide, put together by the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University
- Douglas Allchin's SHiPS Resource Center
- the APA Diversity and Inclusive Syllabi Collection (Philosophy of Science/Biology)
- the website of the Genetics Pedagogies Project at the University of Leeds, exploring the prospects for teaching genetics without Mendelism
Finally, note that Google searches on "syllabus in philosophy of biology" or "syllabus in history of biology" kick up a diversity of syllabi from which one can glean great material. It's not a "one-stop shopping" experience; but you can quickly compare and contrast different approaches.
General textbooks and anthologies in history, philosophy and social studies of biology
- A Guinea Pig’s History of Biology, by Jim Endersby
- A Companion to the Philosophy of Biology, by Sahotra Sarkar (editor) and Anya Plutynsky (editor)
- Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Biology, by Francisco J. Ayala (editor) and Robert Arp (editor)
- Evolution: The History of and Idea, by Peter J. Bowler
- Philosophie der Biologie — Eine Einführung, by Ulrich Krohs and Georg Toepfer
- Philosophy of Biology, by Brian Garvey
- Philosophy of Biology, by Peter Godfrey-Smith
- Philosophy of Biology, by Mohan Matthen (editor) and Christopher Stephens (editor)
- Philosophy of Biology (2nd Edition), by Michael Ruse
- Philosophy of Biology: A Contemporary Introduction, by Alex Rosenberg and Daniel W. McShea
- Philosophy of Biology: An Anthology, by Alex Rosenberg (editor) and Robert Arp (editor)
- Philosophy of Evolutionary Biology, by Stefan Linquist (editor)
- The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Darwin and Evolutionary Thought, by Michael Ruse (editor)
- The Cambridge Companion to Darwin, 2nd edition, by M.J.S. Hodge (editor) and Gregory Radick (editor)
- The Philosophy of Biology: An Episodic History, by Marjorie Grene and David Depew
- The Philosophy of Biology: A Companion for Educators, by Kostas Kampourakis (editor)
- The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Biology, by Michael Ruse (editor)
- Understanding Evolution, by Kostas Kampourakis
- Biologia. Storia e concetti, by Ariane Dröscher
Related Societies and Initiatives
- Spanish-American Association for the Philosophy of Biology (AIFBi — Asociación Iberoamericana de filosofía de la Biología) at the University of Valencia (E).
- Brazilian Association for the Philosophy and History of Biology (ABFHiB — Associação Brasileira de Filosofia e História da Biologia).
- Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine
- Department of Social Science, Health and Medicine at the King's College London.
- Descartes Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Sciences and Humanities (Utrecht, NL).
- German Society for the History and Theory of Biology (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte und Theorie der Biologie).
- Egenis, The Centre for the Study of Life Sciences (Exeter, UK).
- Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research (KLI — Vienna, A).
- LebensWissen, a German-speaking network for Life Science Studies.
- Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.
- Res Viva, a project of the Italian Interuniversity Centre for Epistomological and Historical Research in the Life Sciences (Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerche Epistemologiche e Storiche sulle Scienze del Vivente).
- Italian Society for History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology and Medicine (SIBioM — Società Italiana di Storia, Filosofia e Studi Sociali della Biologia e della Medicina).