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... implications of their scientific work. The writings of such distinguished scientists as Konrad Lorenz, Jacques Monod, Francis Crick, and Edward O. Wilson have proven enormously popular as well, a fact not lost on major book and magazine ...
... implications of their scientific work. The writings of such distinguished scientists as Konrad Lorenz, Jacques Monod, Francis Crick, and Edward O. Wilson have proven enormously popular as well, a fact not lost on major book and magazine ...
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... implications of their work — now so aggressive in their pursuit of this new pastoral role? What scientific breakthroughs, if any, have rendered obsolete the naturalistic fallacy and its social-scientific corollary, the distinction ...
... implications of their work — now so aggressive in their pursuit of this new pastoral role? What scientific breakthroughs, if any, have rendered obsolete the naturalistic fallacy and its social-scientific corollary, the distinction ...
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... implications drawn from their work. Scientific knowledge does not have social, moral, or spiritual implications, in the sense of logically compelling inferences derived from objective facts; such meanings are, instead, attributed to ...
... implications drawn from their work. Scientific knowledge does not have social, moral, or spiritual implications, in the sense of logically compelling inferences derived from objective facts; such meanings are, instead, attributed to ...
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... implications from their scientific work is neither the logic of facts nor the illogic of naturalistic and genetic fallacies, but the guiding presence of metaphysical, moral, and social assumptions embedded in their scientific work. To ...
... implications from their scientific work is neither the logic of facts nor the illogic of naturalistic and genetic fallacies, but the guiding presence of metaphysical, moral, and social assumptions embedded in their scientific work. To ...
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... implications drawn from them need not be compelling. Other perspectives on the problems of living in the contemporary world are once again worth considering, because science has not successfully eliminated them. To the sociologically ...
... implications drawn from them need not be compelling. Other perspectives on the problems of living in the contemporary world are once again worth considering, because science has not successfully eliminated them. To the sociologically ...
Contents
From Metaphysics to Molecular Biology | 44 |
From Molecular Biology to Social Theory | 77 |
The Natural Theology of E O Wilson | 96 |
The Popularization of Human Sociobiology | 136 |
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