Mystery of Mysteries: Is Evolution a Social Construction?With the recent Sokal hoax--the publication of a prominent physicist's pseudo-article in a leading journal of cultural studies--the status of science moved sharply from debate to dispute. Is science objective, a disinterested reflection of reality, as Karl Popper and his followers believed? Or is it subjective, a social construction, as Thomas Kuhn and his students maintained? Into the fray comes Mystery of Mysteries, an enlightening inquiry into the nature of science, using evolutionary theory as a case study. |
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... Wilson's starting point ) , the theory laid itself open to modification in appropriate ways . In the years after the equilibrium theory was formulated , Wilson and his student Dan Simberloff performed a celebrated series of experi ...
... Wilson won his second Pulitzer Prize . To understand the place of this work in Wilson's science , I will focus on a series of papers written by Wilson alone , around 1980 , on the caste system and on how this plays out in the light of ...
... Wilson clearly cares about it . The work with Simberloff in the Florida Keys was guided by this norm , aimed at demonstrating such accuracy with respect to the MacArthur- Wilson theory of biogeography . And the feeling was that within ...
Contents
KARL POPPER AND THOMAS KUHN Two Theories of Science | 13 |
ERASMUS DARWIN From Fish to Philosopher | 37 |
CHARLES DARWIN On the Origin of Species | 54 |
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