Biology & Philosophy

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.

DisciplinePhilosophy of biology

LanguageEnglish

EditedbyMichael Weisberg

History1986–Present

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Biology & Philosophy

Discipline	Philosophy of biology
Language	English
Edited by	Michael Weisberg
Publication details
History	1986–Present
Publisher	Springer
Frequency	Bimonthly
Impact factor	1.461 (2020)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Biol. Philos.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
CODEN	BIOPEI
ISSN	0169-3867 (print) 1572-8404 (web)
LCCN	86642996
OCLC no.	13073787
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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.

Remarking on the journal, David Sloan Wilson wrote: "Biology and Philosophy provided a forum for a new breed of philosopher who regarded biology as a different type of science that need not and indeed should not be compared to physics."^[5]