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  1. The engagement of religion and biology: A case study in the mediating role of metaphor in the sociobiology of Lumsden & Wilson. [REVIEW]Jitse M. van der Meer - 2000 - Biology and Philosophy 15 (5):669-698.
    I claim that explanations of human behaviour by Edward O. Wilsonand Charles Lumsden are constituted by a religiously functioningmetaphysics: emergent materialism. The constitutive effects areidentified using six criteria, beginning with a metaphorical re-description of dissimilarities between levels of organization interms of the lower level, and consist of conceptual andexplanatory reductions (CER). Wilson and Lumsden practice CER,even though CER is not required by emergent materialism. Theypreconceive this practice by a re-description which conflates thelevels of organization and explain failure of CER in (...)
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  • Evolution, cognition, and survival: Evolutionary epistemology and derivative topics.Franz M. Wuketits - 1997 - World Futures 51 (1):47-93.
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