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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... move urged on us by the constructivists . And should things turn out badly for traditional objec- tivists , it is not a move they can deplore retroactively . Popper always prided himself on the way in which his philosophy reflected the ...
... move a strong and decisive move from the subjective to the objective ( as judged in terms of the epistemic / nonepistemic dichotomy ) . Nor is this a conclusion negated by the metavalues that influence the epistemic standards scientists ...
... move from homogeneity to heterogeneity , in culture and in biology . For him , therefore , movement toward a division of labor was progress by another name . And so it was to continue , down to the age of Edward O. Wilson , for whom the ...
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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