Philosophy of Ecology: From Science to Synthesis (2000)
Keller, David R. (Editor)
Golley, Frank Benjamin (Editor)
University of Georgia Press
Physical Details: xii + 366 pp., illus., bibl., index
Language: English
Description Contents: Frederic E. Clements: Preface to plant succession: An analysis of the development of vegetation. Henry A. Gleason: The individualistic concept of the plant association. Arthur G. Tansley: The use and abuse of vegetational concepts and terms. Daniel Simberloff: A succession of paradigms in ecology: Essentialism to materialism and probabilism. Robert E. Ulanowicz: Life after Newton: An ecological metaphysic. Karl Möbius: An oyster bank is a biocönose, or a social community. Robert H. Whittaker; Simon A. Levin; Richard B. Root: On the reasons for distinguishing niche, habitat, and ecotope. Ruth Patrick: Biological diversity in ecology. Andrew Redfearn; Stuart L. Pimm: Stability in ecological communities. Karl R. Popper: The bucket and the searchlight: Two theories of knowledge. Robert M. May: The role of theory in ecology. Kristin Shrader-Frechette; Earl D. Mccoy: Community ecology, population biology, and the method of case studies. Thomas W. Schoener: Mechanistic approaches to ecology: A new reductionism? Eugene P. Odum: The emergence of ecology as a new integrative discipline. Donato Bergandi: “Reductionist holism”: An oxymoron or a philosophical chimera of Eugene Odum's systems ecology? Richard Levins; Richard C. Lewontin: Dialectics and reductionism in ecology. T. F. H. Allen; Thomas B. Starr: Hierarchy: Perspectives for ecological complexity. David L. Hull: The metaphysics of evolution. Stephen J. Gould; Richard C. Lewontin: The spandrels of San Marco and the panglossian paradigm: A critique of the adaptationist program. Ernst Mayr: How to carry out the adaptationist program? James P. Collins: Evolutionary ecology and the use of natural selection in ecological theory. Craig Loehles; Joseph H. K. Pechmann: Evolution: The missing ingredient in systems ecology.
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