| The Structure of Biological Theories Contributor(s): Thompson, Paul (Author) |
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ISBN: 0887069339 ISBN-13: 9780887069338 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover Published: April 1989 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Life Sciences - Evolution - Philosophy |
| Dewey: 575.01 |
| LCCN: 88-15376 |
| Series: Suny Philosophy and Biology |
| Physical Information: (0.82 lbs) 160 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The central thesis of this book is that the semantic conception is a logical methodologically and heuristically richer and more accurate account of scientific theorizing, and in particular of theorizing in evolutionary biology, than the more widely adhered to syntactic conception. In this book, the author outlines both the conceptions indicating the significant problems with the syntactic conception; explains and criticizes two influential syntactic-conception accounts of the structure of evolutionary theorizing. Thompson also argues that the semantic conception provides a richer and more accurate understanding than the syntactic conception of sociobiological explanation, of the testability of sociobiology, and of the role of culture and cognition in evolutionary explanations of human behavior. |