Book ID: CBB000110573

Biology and epistemology (2000)

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Creath, Richard (Editor)
Maienschein, Jane A. (Editor)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 2000
Physical Details: xviii + 295 pp., illus., bibl.
Language: English

Description Contents: Richard Creath, Jane Maienschein, Introduction; Michael Ruse, Darwin and the philosophers: Epistemological factors in the development and reception of the theory of the Origin of Species; Jon Hodge, Knowing about evolution: Darwin and his theory of natural selection; David L. Hull, Why did Darwin fail? The role of John Stuart Mill; Robert J. Richards, The epistemology of historical interpretation: Progressivity and recapitulation in Darwin's theory; David Magnus, Down the primrose path: Competing epistemologies in early twentieth-century biology; Jane Maienschein, Competing epistemologies and developmental biology; William Bechtel, From imaging to believing: Epistemic issues in generating biological data; Frederic L. Holmes, The logic of discovery in the experimental life sciences; R. C. Lewontin, What do population geneticists know and how do they know it? Marga Vicedo, Experimentation in early genetics: The implications of the historical character of science for scientific realism; Evelyn Fox Keller, Making sense of life: Explanation in developmental biology; Kenneth F. Schaffner, Afterword.


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Authors & Contributors
Isabel Gabel
Chiapperino, Luca
Eugene, Earnshaw-Whyte
Wimsatt, William C.
van Wyhe, John
Travis, Joseph
Concepts
Evolution
Biology
Natural selection
Philosophy of biology
Darwinism
Discovery in science
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
21st century
20th century, early
Places
Great Britain
Blue Mountains (New South Wales)
Tasmania (Australia)
New South Wales (Australia)
England
Malay; Malaysia
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