Bøger af Evelyn Fox Keller

Evelyn Fox Keller's memoir is the story of a wandering academic, who has managed a long and successful career without ever quite answering the question of who she is or where she belongs, insisting throughout on multiple identities and rejecting the very idea of a disciplinary home. Her focus is on the opportunities and costs of never settling into a clear and recognizable place in the world.

The essays included here represent Fox Keller's attempts to integrate the insights of feminist theory with those of her contemporaries in the history and philosophy of science.

The esteemed historian and philosopher of science Evelyn Fox Keller addresses the nature-nurture debate, arguing that it is riddled by conceptual incoherence.

In a book that promises to change the way we think and talk about genes and genetic determinism, Evelyn Fox Keller, one of our most gifted historians and philosophers of science, provides a powerful, profound analysis of the achievements of genetics and molecular biology in the twentieth century, the century of the gene.

A history of the diverse and changing nature of biological explanation in a particularly charged field, Making Sense of Life draws our attention to the temporal, disciplinary, and cultural components of what biologists mean, and what they understand, when they propose to explain life.