Biology and Philosophy

Biology and Philosophy |Subject |Discipline}}| Philosophy of biology

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Language| English
Edited by| Michael Weisberg
Publication details
History| 1986–Present
Publisher|

Springer

Frequency| Bimonthly

Impact factor

| 1.209 (2016)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4 (alt) * Bluebook (alt1 * alt2)
NLM (alt) * MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4| Biol. Philos.
Indexing
CODEN * JSTOR (alt) * LCCN (alt)
MIAR * NLM (alt) * Scopus
CODEN| BIOPEI
ISSN| 0169-3867 (print)
1572-8404 (web)

LCCN| 86642996
OCLC no.| 13073787
Links

* Journal homepage

Biology and 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 Abstracts
* Current Contents/Arts and Humanities
* Dietrich's Index Philosophicus
* EBSCO
* EMBiology
* ERIH
* Gale
* Geobase
* International Bibliography of Book Reviews
* International Bibliography of Periodical Literature
* ISIS Current Bibliography of the History of Science
* OmniFile
* Répertoire Bibliographique de la Philosophie
* Science Citation Index
* Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition
* Journal Citation Reports/Social Sciences Edition
* Social Science Citation Index
* Social SciSearch
* SCOPUS
* Science Select
* SCImago
* Summon by Serial Solutions
* The Philosopher's Index
* Zoological Record

Its 2011 impact factor was 1.203.

## References

1. ↑ Griffiths, Paul (4 July 2008). "Philosophy of Biology". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/biology-philosophy/. Retrieved 2012-08-29.
2. ↑ Ross, Gregg. "An interview with Michael Ruse". American Scientist. http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/michael-ruse. Retrieved 2012-08-29.
3. ↑ Sterelny, Kim (2017-01-01). "Farewell" (in en). Biology & Philosophy 32 (1): 1–3. doi:10.1007/s10539-016-9559-6. ISSN 0169-3867.
4. ↑ "Biology and Philosophy (Editorial Board)". Springer. https://www.springer.com/philosophy/epistemology+and+philosophy+of+science/journal/10539?detailsPage=editorialBoard. Retrieved 2017-01-09.

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