Philosophers of science and philosophers generally have long been interested in biology ( e.g. , Aristotle , Descartes , and even Kant ) .
Philosophy of biology only emerged as an independent field of philosophy in the 1960s and 1970s .
Although philosophers of science and philosophers generally have long been interested in biology ( e.g. , Aristotle , Descartes , and even Kant ) , philosophy of biology only emerged as an independent field of philosophy in the 1960s and 1970s .