A recurring theme in philosophy is the suggestion that there are philosophical reasons to stop doing philosophy. This general idea is briefly sketched with regard to its various versions, other reasons to abandon philosophy, proposals regarding revisions of philosophy and possible paradoxical implications. Three uniting sub-themes of otherwise very different suggestions on what is the alleged r...

We argue for a naturalistic account for appraising scientific methods that carries non-trivial normative force. We develop our approach by comparison with Laudan’s (American Philosophical Quarterly 24:19–31, 1987, Philosophy of Science 57:20–33, 1990) “normative naturalism” based on correlating means (various scientific methods) with ends (e.g., reliability). We argue that such a meta-methodolo...

Functional genomics provides new opportunities to address issues of fundamental interest in evolutionary biology and suggests many new research directions that are ripe for evolutionary investigation. New types of data, and the ability to study biological processes from a whole genome perspective, are likely to have a profound impact on evolutionary biology and ecology. To illustrate, we discus...