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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... biology ; but , as Wilson makes very clear in later writ- ing , it is only in a sense . He believes that , if certain moves or practices or beliefs prove particularly advantageous , biology is likely to track culture . Moreover , even ...
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Is Evolution a Social Construction? Michael Ruse. 1996. Unifying Biology : the Evolutionary Synthesis and Evolutionary Biology . Princeton , N.J .: Princeton University Press . Sokal , A. D. 1996a . Transgressing the boundaries toward a ...
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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