What Sort of Science Is Evolutionary Biology?

Dialogue 30 (1-2):129- (1991)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

A review of Paul Thompson's semantic interpretation of evolutionary theory.

Categories

Keywords

Reprint years

DOI

10.1017/s0012217300013391

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 91,349

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

My notes

Similar books and articles

What’s Wrong with the Received View of Evolutionary Theory?John Beatty - 1980 - PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1980:397 - 426.
Selection and causation.Mohan Matthen & André Ariew - 2009 - Philosophy of Science 76 (2):201-224.
How to understand casual relations in natural selection: Reply to Rosenberg and Bouchard. [REVIEW]Mohan Matthen & André Ariew - 2005 - Biology and Philosophy 20 (2-3):355-364.
Making Sense of Evolution: The Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary Theory.Massimo Pigliucci & Jonathan Kaplan - 2006 - University of Chicago Press.
Chance and natural selection.John Beatty - 1984 - Philosophy of Science 51 (2):183-211.
Review: Choosing Selection: The Revival of Natural Selection in Anglo-American Evolutionary Biology, 1930-1970. [REVIEW]Roberta L. Millstein - 2010 - Reports of the National Center for Science Education 30 (6):32.
The Semantic Approach and Its Application to Evolutionary Theory.Elisabeth A. Lloyd - 1988 - PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1988:278 - 285.
The Functional Perspective of Organismal Biology.Arno Wouters - 2005 - In Thomas A. C. Reydon & Lia Hemerik (eds.), Current Themes in Theoretical Biology : A Dutch Perspective. Springer. pp. 33--69.
The semantic approach to evolutionary theory.Marc Ereshefsky - 1991 - Biology and Philosophy 6 (1):59-80.
Explanation in the Semantic Conception of Theory Structure.Paul Thompson - 1988 - PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1988:286 - 296.
Neutralism.Anya Plutynski - 2004 - In Christopher Stephens & Mohan Matthen (eds.), Elsevier Handbook in Philosophy of Biology. Elsevier.
What Scientific Theories Could Not Be.Hans Halvorson - 2012 - Philosophy of Science 79 (2):183-206.
Natural selection as a population-level causal process.Roberta L. Millstein - 2006 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 57 (4):627-653.
Two ways of thinking about fitness and natural selection.Mohan Matthen & André Ariew - 2002 - Journal of Philosophy 99 (2):55-83.

Analytics

Added to PP
2010-09-25

Downloads
21 (#715,461)

6 months
4 (#818,853)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Mohan Matthen
University of Toronto, Mississauga

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations

References found in this work

Taking Darwin Seriously. A Naturalistic Approach to Philosophy.M. Ruse - 1988 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 50 (1):172-173.
The desirability of formalization in science.Patrick Suppes - 1968 - Journal of Philosophy 65 (20):651-664.
Fact, Fiction, and Fitness.Elliott Sober - 1984 - Journal of Philosophy 81 (7):372-383.

View all 7 references / Add more references