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... 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 publishers. Unlike ...
... 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 publishers. Unlike ...
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... scientific breakthroughs, if any, have rendered obsolete the naturalistic fallacy and its social-scientific corollary, the distinction between biology and culture? What precisely are the arguments being made; what is their scientific ...
... scientific breakthroughs, if any, have rendered obsolete the naturalistic fallacy and its social-scientific corollary, the distinction between biology and culture? What precisely are the arguments being made; what is their scientific ...
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... scientific mythologies" (Toul- min 1957) — dramatic and often anthropomorphized representations of how the world works that arouse our emotions, validate our hopes, answer our most troubling questions, and lend both cosmic and scientific ...
... scientific mythologies" (Toul- min 1957) — dramatic and often anthropomorphized representations of how the world works that arouse our emotions, validate our hopes, answer our most troubling questions, and lend both cosmic and scientific ...
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... scientific, social, philosophical, and theological issues were intermingled to form a common context in which to explore the question of man's place in nature. Because of Darwin's obvious debts — in the formulation of his theory — to ...
... scientific, social, philosophical, and theological issues were intermingled to form a common context in which to explore the question of man's place in nature. Because of Darwin's obvious debts — in the formulation of his theory — to ...
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... scientific paradigms, personal commitments, and cultural contexts are also the essential scientific instruments without which knowledge cannot be gained. Because of the bold and confident claims of the scientists to be discussed, the ...
... scientific paradigms, personal commitments, and cultural contexts are also the essential scientific instruments without which knowledge cannot be gained. Because of the bold and confident claims of the scientists to be discussed, the ...
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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