title: In Mendel's Mirror: Philosophical Reflections on Biology
author:  Philip Kitcher 
description: <br />"What is most striking about the book is its uniformly high quality; although the volume runs to nearly four hundred pages, there are no space fillers here - each essay is substantive, penetrating, and authoritative.... <em>In Mendel's Mirror</em> performs the valuable service of collecting together some of the finest essays in philosophy of biology written in the past two decades, and gives a fascinating insight into Kitcher's intellectual development over that period."--<em>Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews</em>
zlib_text: In this book, Adam Ferner frames challenges to my work which I take very 
  seriously – not least with respect to the relation of being a person and being a 
  human being. He seeks also to repair the acknowledged omission on my part to 
  pursue the relation between the issues in logic and metaphysics I do discuss and 
  profound issues in the philosophy of biology which I have neglected. I am sur-
  prised and gratified by the attention he has paid to my work.
  David Wiggins, New College, Oxford, UK
  There is a great deal of contemporary debate about the relation between meta-
  physics and the philosophy of biology, but it is surprisingly little remarked that 
  no less a metaphysician than David Wiggins has been insisting on the importance 
  of this relationship for half a century. In this book, Adam Ferner not only draws 
  our attention to this fact, but goes on to explore the connection between 
  Wiggins’s ideas, especially on personal identity, and recent thinking in the 
  philosophy of biology, in