Book ID: CBB001551237

Problemgeschichte des Wissenschaftsbegriffs Ethologie: Ursprung, Funktion und Zukunft eines Begründungsspezialisten (2014)

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Schurig, Volker (Editor)


Basilisken-Presse


Publication Date: 2014
Physical Details: 336 pp.; ill.
Language: German

The biologist and science theorist Volker Schurig dealt for over 40 years with questions of animal behavior and experienced - as in a "Glass Bead Game" - the permanent change of terms of a seemingly "borderless", dynamic field of science, behavioral biology. In this paper, it analyzes the functions, relationships and limits of replacing and competing "word constructions" and justified - in a tremendously exciting excursion into the history and logic - the special position of science term "ethology" which nevertheless went through its own change of meaning. "As the colorful plumage of a bird of paradise shimmers of Ethologiebegriff historically in different scientific criteria and many reviews. In the two thousand years of history of concepts he has ten to fifteen natural and justified sociological science systems. "(Introduction, p 12) Schurig sees in the" justification specialists ethology "the most complex, the most stable and science logically highest ranking concept of science in the behavioral sciences and explains what he can do better than its supposed alternatives and synonyms: construct a stable system of science, develop classification calculi and establish a network of new part Sciences. The book was written in five years of work and became the legacy of the author, who died during an expedition in Ethiopia during the printing

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Review Wessel, Andreas (2014) Review of "Problemgeschichte des Wissenschaftsbegriffs Ethologie: Ursprung, Funktion und Zukunft eines Begründungsspezialisten". Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte (pp. 397-398). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Generali, Dario
Burckhardt, Richard W., Jr.
Jones, Derek M.
Jakob Odenwald
Polidori, Carlo
Antonella Tramacere
Journals
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
VIET: Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki
Nature
Journal of the History of Biology
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences
Publishers
Olschki
Arizona State University
VWB
Routledge
Prometheus Books
Oxford University Press
Concepts
Ethology
Biology
Behavioral sciences
Natural philosophy
Parasitology
Entomology
People
Vallisneri, Antonio
Lorenz, Konrad
Hennig, Willi
Diacinto Cestoni
Goodall, Jane
Spallanzani, Lazzaro
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
Early modern
21st century
18th century
19th century
Places
Germany
Italy
Naples (Italy)
Russia
Europe
Soviet Union
Institutions
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Biologie, Berlin
Stazione Zoologica di Napoli
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