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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... question - there is something wrong with the question . Or perhaps with the way in which the ques- tion is being answered . Either the whole question of realism versus nonrealism is not a genuine question or , even if the question is ...
... question " why " in a philosophical sense . I think if I'd been religious I'd have been tormented by the question of why had God done this to me . But that was never a thing . I just accepted that there'd been some transformation in ...
... question . So you have to construct some model , some mathematical model , in such a way as to be intuitively satisfying , such that it can produce some solution to the question you're trying to answer . That's the hard step . That's ...
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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