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  1. Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes.Imre Lakatos - 1970 - In Imre Lakatos & Alan Musgrave (eds.), Criticism and the growth of knowledge. Cambridge [Eng.]: Cambridge University Press. pp. 91-196.
     
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  • Does the distinction between normal and revolutionary science hold water?Stephen Toulmin - 1970 - In Imre Lakatos & Alan Musgrave (eds.), Criticism and the growth of knowledge. Cambridge [Eng.]: Cambridge University Press. pp. 39--47.
  • Natural Science and Its dangers.T. Kuhn - 1970 - In Imre Lakatos & Alan Musgrave (eds.), Criticism and the growth of knowledge. Cambridge [Eng.]: Cambridge University Press.
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  • Consolations for the Specialist.Paul Feyerabend - 1970 - In Imre Lakatos & Alan Musgrave (eds.), Criticism and the growth of knowledge. Cambridge [Eng.]: Cambridge University Press. pp. 197.
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  • The relation between philosophy of science and biology exemplified by the problem of explanation.W. Van Laar & H. Verhoog - 1972 - Acta Biotheoretica 21 (3-4):274-301.
    This paper contains some considerations on the relation between philosophy of science and science, in particular biology. There is a contrast between formalistic and pragmatic approaches to the structure of scientific thought, which is illustrated by the different viewpoints on the nature of explanation. In an appendix some aspects of the logical structure of teleological explanation are discussed.
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  • Hempel's view on functional explanation some critical comments.W. J. Van Der Steen - 1971 - Acta Biotheoretica 20 (3-4):171-178.
    Functional explanations are regarded as a special type of explanation by many biologists. Philosophers of science tend to agree that they are weak forms of the common modes of explanation, although the elucidation of the logical structure involved is difficult. The present paper shows that Hempel's reconstruction of functional explanations is inadequate on pragmatic grounds. Thus his conclusion that such explanations are necessarily weak is also objectionable. There is no reason for allotting functional explanations a special logical status.
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  • The inference of function from structure in fossils.M. J. S. Rudwick - 1964 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 15 (57):27-40.
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  • Lenkende und limitierende faktoren in der evolution.Wolf -Ernst Reif - 1975 - Acta Biotheoretica 24 (3-4):136-162.
    It is shown in a literature review, that in the Typostrophic Theory autonomous mechanisms in the organism are considered as the factors which play a decisive role in orienting and controlling the evolutionary process. Selection is a controlling factor of only minor importance. The Synthetic Theory, on the other side, says that phylogenetic changes are not random or controlled by “internal factors” but can always be considered as adaptive remodellings. They are achieved by selection acting on the variation within populations. (...)
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  • Lenkende und Limitierende Faktoren in der Evolution.Wolf-Ernst Reif - 1975 - Acta Biotheoretica 24 (3-4):136-162.
    It is shown in a literature review, that in the Typostrophic Theory autonomous mechanisms in the organism are considered as the factors which play a decisive role in orienting and controlling the evolutionary process. Selection is a controlling factor of only minor importance. The Synthetic Theory, on the other side, says that phylogenetic changes are not random or controlled by “internal factors” but can always be considered as adaptive remodellings. They are achieved by selection acting on the variation within populations. (...)
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  • Function in biology.M. Jeuken - 1958 - Acta Biotheoretica 13 (1):29-46.
    In this paper we intend to propose a definition of function in biology. First we delimitated the problem and pointed out that a definition must not be related to hypotheses such as the causal connexion between form and function, phylogenetics or evolution, but that only the existence of functions is to be considered. The elements to be expressed in the definition are: the relation of function to form, the dynamic character, the integration into the activity of the total organism, the (...)
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  • Konstruktion und selektion: Argumente gegen einen morphologisch verkürzten selektionismus.Wolfgang Friedrich Gutmann & Dieter Stefan Peters - 1973 - Acta Biotheoretica 22 (4):151-180.
    It is argued that the narrow concept of selection used since the time ofDarwin is only concerned with the relation between organism and its environment . It did not include the organism itself, which was the object of the pre-phylogenetic idealistic morphology. An adequate understanding of the mechanism of evolution dispenses with the concept of morphology as the basis of phylogeny.Es wird aufgezeigt, da\ der aufDarwin selbst zurückgehende eingeengte Gebrauch des Selektionskonzeptes auf die Beziehung zwischen Organismus und Umwelt die biologische (...)
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  • Natural selection and neoteny.R. F. Ewer - 1960 - Acta Biotheoretica 13 (4):161-184.
    Even today, a century after the publication of the “Origin of Species”, current zoological literature often reveals an insufficient grasp of the implications of the now generally accepted view that it is natural selection that confers direction on the evolutionary process.This is, in part, due to a reaction against oversimplified teleology and against Lamarckism. In rejecting Lamarck's thesis that the activities of an animal directly affect its hereditary characters it is frequently assumed that this implies that such activities are irrelevant (...)
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  • Some methodology problems in a holistic approach to functional morphology.P. Dullemeijer - 1968 - Acta Biotheoretica 18 (1-4):203-214.
    An initial investigation of controversies and differences in opinion in the various schools of functional anatomy is presented by listing the methodology problems.The possibilities and limitations of functional anatomy are derived from the successive steps in the procedure in a functional anatomical investigation.Starting from the holistic approach as introduced byVan der Klaauw, the main problems of defining the term functional component and the applied methods are discussed.Two principal methods are presented, of which the limitations are considered. The various aspects where (...)
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  • Explanation in morphology.P. Dullemeijer - 1972 - Acta Biotheoretica 21 (3-4):260-273.
    In biology, and particularly in morphology, various types of explanation are found,e.g. causal, teleological, historical, etc.In this article an attempt has been made to analyse the relations between the various explanations to strive for an encompassing explanatory theory.The general structure of the explanatory theories appeared to be very similar, but the terms defining the phenomena and the types of the relations within the theories differ. To obtain a unifying theory it is necessary to develop methods to connect or transform the (...)
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  • Logik der Forschung.Karl Popper - 1934 - Erkenntnis 5 (1):290-294.
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  • Erklärung, Prognose, Planung, Skizzen zu Brenn punktproblemen der Wissenschaftstheorie.Hans Lenk - 1975 - Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 29 (2):317-319.
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  • Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge.Imre Lakatos, Alan Musgrave, Roger C. Buck & Robert S. Cohen - 1972 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 23 (3):266-274.
     
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  • Hauptströmungen der Gegenwartsphilosophie.Wolfgang Stegmüller - 1962 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 18 (1):104-106.
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  • The Triumph of the Darwinian Method.Michael T. Ghiselin - 1973 - Philosophy of Science 40 (3):466-467.