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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... problem , P1 , inspires a tentative theory , TT , which is then subject to test and to error elimination , EE , giving rise in turn to another problem , P2 . Popper was very much aware that often one has several problems and theories ...
... Problems in science therefore are not problems in the sense of things calling for answers which may or may not be solvable - the Israeli / Pales- tinian problem , for instance . They are rather puzzles , in the sense that a scientist ...
... problems . More than this , there are there were ways in which the theory could be extended into new fields toward new problems . Consider the work of a close friend of Wallace , Henry Walter Bates ( 1862 ) , as he looked mimicry in ...
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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