The conceptual basis of a biological dispute about the temporal order of evolutionary events
In Friedrich Stadler & Michael Stölzner (eds.), Time and History. Papers of the 28th International Wittgenstein Symposium. Österr. Ludwig-Wittgenstein-Gesellschaft (2005)
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occurs first. The biological debate is conducted largely on a theoretical level. In this paper, I undertake to locate the reason for the difference in temporal ordering. The question is whether the difference depends on alternative interpretations of empirical data, on differing views about evolutionary mechanisms, or on different conceptual frameworks. It will turn out that the latter is the case and that discerning two different notions of novelty solves the apparent contradiction. Both concepts may apply to different cases in evolution. To settle the dispute by judging whether any of both concepts is empty or not has to be recommitted to science. |
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