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Metaphysical foundations of the evolutionary synthesis: A historiographical note (1994)

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Description “I begin by demonstrating how the theoretical syntheses sought by two German zoologists of the interwar period, Alfred Kühn and Richard Woltereck, were constructed upon an anti-reductionist metaphysics. The following section considers whether the architects of the evolutionary synthesis might have endorsed a similar metaphysics. In the conclusion I explore how study of the evolutionary synthesis from this perspective might shed light on a more general question: the heuristic function performed by metaphysical assumptions in the biological sciences.”


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Authors & Contributors
Galperin, Charles
Harwood, Jonathan H.
Allen, Garland E.
Crook, D. P.
Gilbert, Scott F.
González Recio, José Luis
Journals
Journal of the History of Biology
Almagest
Freiburger Universitätsblätter
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences
History of Science
Llull: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias y de las Técnicas
Publishers
Ashgate Publishing
Brepols
Oxford University Press
Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung
L'Asino d'oro Edizioni
Concepts
Evolution
Biology
Genetics
Creationism
Science and religion
Science education and teaching
People
Kühn, Alfred
Darwin, Charles Robert
Levi-Montalcini, Rita
Woltereck, Richard
Avery, Oswald Theodore
Dalcq, Albert
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
Places
United States
Australia
British Isles
China
Germany
New Zealand
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