Includes bibliographical references (p. 292-310) and index.
1. Ought Philosophers Consider Scientific Discovery?: A Darwinian case study -- 2. Are Pictures Really Necessary?: The case of Sewall Wright's 'adaptive landscapes' -- 3. Controversy in Palaeontology: The theory of punctuated equilibria -- 4. A Threefold Parallelism for Our Time?: Progressive development in society, science and the organic world -- 5. Scientific Change is a Family Affair! -- 6. The View from Somewhere: A critical defence of evolutionary epistemology -- 7. Evolutionary Biology and Cultural Values: Is it irremediably corrupt? -- 8. Evolution and Ethics: The sociobiological approach -- 9. Evolutionary Ethics: The debate continues.