Biology & Philosophy
Discipline | Philosophy of biology |
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Language | English |
Edited by | Michael Weisberg |
Publication details | |
History | 1986–Present |
Publisher | |
Frequency | Bimonthly |
1.209 (2016) | |
Standard abbreviations | |
ISO 4 | Biol. Philos. |
Indexing | |
CODEN | BIOPEI |
ISSN | 0169-3867 (print) 1572-8404 (web) |
LCCN | 86642996 |
OCLC no. | 13073787 |
Links | |
Biology & Philosophy is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes articles about philosophy of biology, broadly understood to span conceptual, theoretical, and methodological issues in the biological sciences.
The journal was founded by Michael Ruse in 1986,[1][2] edited by him from 1986 to 2000, then edited by Kim Sterelny from 2000 to 2016,[3] and it is currently edited by Michael Weisberg.[4] It is published by Springer.
Abstracting and indexing[]
The journal is abstracted and indexed in the following databases
- Academic OneFile
- Academic Search
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index
- Biological Abstracts
- BIOSIS
- Current Contents/Arts and Humanities
- EBSCO
- EMBiology
- ERIH
- Gale
- Geobase
- International Bibliography of Periodical Literature
- ISIS Current Bibliography of the History of Science
- Répertoire Bibliographique de la Philosophie
- Science Citation Index
- Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition
- Journal Citation Reports/Social Sciences Edition
- Social Sciences Citation Index
- SCOPUS
- SCImago
- Summon by Serial Solutions
- The Philosopher's Index
- Zoological Record
Its 2011 impact factor was 1.203.
References[]
- ^ Griffiths, Paul (4 July 2008). "Philosophy of Biology". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved 2012-08-29.
- ^ Ross, Gregg. "An interview with Michael Ruse". American Scientist. Retrieved 2012-08-29.
- ^ Sterelny, Kim (2017-01-01). "Farewell". Biology & Philosophy. 32 (1): 1–3. doi:10.1007/s10539-016-9559-6. ISSN 0169-3867.
- ^ "Biology and Philosophy (Editorial Board)". Springer. Retrieved 2017-01-09.
Categories:
- Philosophy of science journals
- Philosophy of biology
- Publications established in 1986
- Springer Science+Business Media academic journals
- English-language journals
- Bimonthly journals
- Philosophy journal stubs