Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- INTRODUCTION -- Part I Case studies -- Introduction -- 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 -- Part II Evolutionary epistemology -- Introduction -- 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 -- Part III Evolutionary ethics -- Introduction -- 7 EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY AND CULTURAL VALUES Is it irremediably corrupt? -- 8 EVOLUTION AND ETHICS The sociobiological approach -- 9 EVOLUTIONARY ETHICS The debate continues -- Bibliography -- Index.