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Today there are major Departments at the University of Melbourne, the University of New South Wales and the University of W ollongong, and smaller groups active in many other parts of Australia and in New Zealand.

Today there are major Departments at the University of Melbourne, the University of New South Wales and the University of Wollongong, and smaller groups active in many other parts of Australia and in New Zealand.

Some think that issues to do with scientific method are last century's stale debate; Some of the papers reinvestigate issues in the debate over methodology, while others set out new ways in which the debate has developed in the last decade.

Contains papers which are presented by New Zealand and American philosophers of biology. This volume reflects the intellectual exchange between the two countries. It also discusses post-sociobiological treatments of cultural evolution.

Scientia is the term that early modern philosophers applied to a certain kind of demonstrative knowledge, the kind whose starting points were appropriate first principles. This book offers a variety of glimpses of this difference by exploring the works of individual philosophers as well as philosophical movements and groupings of the period.