What Does Evolutionary Science Provide for Contemporary Philosophy? On Ernst Mayr's “New Philosophy of Biology” (2009)
Li, Jianhui (Author)
Journal of Cambridge Studies
Volume: 4, no. 4
Issue: 4
Pages: 37-45
Edition Details: Part of a special section, “Darwin and Evolution”
Language: English
Ernst Mayr is a well-known biologist and philosopher in the twentieth century. Being a biologist, he is an important person in constructing the synthesis theory of evolution; being a philosopher, he has advocated a new philosophy, which, he claims, synthesizes the achievement of different biologies and physics, while at the same time getting rid of the influences of the traditional philosophy of science. ...
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