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The Structure of Biological Theories (SUNY series in Philosophy and Biology)

By Paul Thompson

Book information

Publisher
SUNY Press
Year
1989
ISBN
0887069339, 9780887069338
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
86 MB (89934763 bytes)
Pages
160\79
Time added
2022-12-10 12:06:46

Description

The central thesis of this book is that the semantic conception is a logical methodologically and heuristically richer and more accurate account of scientific theorizing, and in particular of theorizing in evolutionary biology, than the more widely adhered to syntactic conception. In this book, the author outlines both the conceptions indicating the significant problems with the syntactic conception; explains and criticizes two influential syntactic-conception accounts of the structure of evolutionary theorizing. Thompson also argues that the semantic conception provides a richer and more accurate understanding than the syntactic conception of sociobiological explanation, of the testability of sociobiology, and of the role of culture and cognition in evolutionary explanations of human behavior.

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