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  1. 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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  • (1 other version)Objective knowledge: an evolutionary approach.Karl Raimund Popper - 1972 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    The essays in this volume represent an approach to human knowledge that has had a profound influence on many recent thinkers. Popper breaks with a traditional commonsense theory of knowledge that can be traced back to Aristotle. A realist and fallibilist, he argues closely and in simple language that scientific knowledge, once stated in human language, is no longer part of ourselves but a separate entity that grows through critical selection.
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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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  • Optimierung und ökonomisierung im kontext Von evolutionstheorie und phylogenetischer rekonstruktion.Klaus Bonik, Wolfgang Friedrich Gutmann & D. Stefan Peters - 1977 - Acta Biotheoretica 26 (2):75-119.
    The meaning of optimality and economy in phylogenetics and evolutionary biology is discussed.It can be shown that the prevailing concepts of optimality and economy are equivocal as they are not based on strict theoretical positions and as they have a variable meaning in different theoretical contexts. The ideas of optimality and economy can be considered to be identical with the expectation of a relatively simple order in a particular field of study. Although there exists no way of inferring one or (...)
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  • Sociobiology: Sense or Nonsense?J. L. Mackie - 1979 - Erkenntnis 15 (2):189-194.
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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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  • Darwin's evolutionary philosophy: The laws of change.Edward S. Reed - 1978 - Acta Biotheoretica 27 (3-4):201-235.
    The philosophical or metaphysical architecture of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is analyzed and diflussed. It is argued that natural selection was for Darwin a paradigmatic case of a natural law of change — an exemplar of what Ghiselin (1969) has called selective retention laws. These selective retention laws lie at the basis of Darwin's revolutionary world view. In this essay special attention is paid to the consequences for Darwin's concept of species of his selective retention laws. Although (...)
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  • Hauptgedanken Des holismus.Adolf Meyer-Abich - 1940 - Acta Biotheoretica 5 (2):85-116.
    The question dealt with in the article is the following: Is reality a Unity, a Plurality or a Whole. We do not expect to get definit results, we are only interested in pointing out a new ideal of scientific research.Under the predominance of physical thinking science was inclined upon nature as a Unity. The philosophy corresponding with this conception is Monism, to which belong all philosophical systems founded on the mecanistic idea from the primitive Monism ofHaeckel to the most sophisticated (...)
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  • Commentary: Part I.Ernst Mayr, Ernest Nagel, Dudley Shapere, Everett Mendelsohn & John Platt - 1969 - Journal of the History of Biology 2 (1):123 - 147.
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  • Commentary?Part I.Ernst Mayr & Ernest Nagel - 1969 - Journal of the History of Biology 2 (1):123-147.
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  • (1 other version)The Logic of Scientific Discovery.Karl R. Popper - 1935 - London, England: Routledge.
    Described by the philosopher A.J. Ayer as a work of 'great originality and power', this book revolutionized contemporary thinking on science and knowledge. Ideas such as the now legendary doctrine of 'falsificationism' electrified the scientific community, influencing even working scientists, as well as post-war philosophy. This astonishing work ranks alongside _The Open Society and Its Enemies_ as one of Popper's most enduring books and contains insights and arguments that demand to be read to this day.
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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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  • Animal Species and Evolution.Ernst Mayr - 1963 - Belknap of Harvard University Press.
    Comprehensive evaluation and study of man's theories and knowledge of genetical characteristics and the evolutionary processes.
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  • Phylogenetic Systematics.Willi Hennig - 1966 - University of Illinois Press.
    Argues for the primacy of the phylogenetic system as the general reference system in biology. This book, first published in 1966, generated significant controversy and opened possibilities for evolutionary biology.
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  • The living system: determinism stratified.Paul A. Weiss - 1969 - In Arthur Koestler & John Raymond Smythies (eds.), Beyond reductionism: new perspectives in the life sciences. London,: Hutchinson. pp. 3--55.
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  • Philosophical Comments on Tarski'€™s Theory of Truth.K. Popper - 1972 - In Karl Raimund Popper (ed.), Objective knowledge: an evolutionary approach. New York: Oxford University Press.
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  • Beyond reductionism: new perspectives in the life sciences.Arthur Koestler & John Raymond Smythies (eds.) - 1969 - London,: Hutchinson.
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  • Objective knowledge, an evolutionary approach.Karl R. Popper - 1976 - Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 166 (1):72-73.
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  • (4 other versions)The Logic of Scientific Discovery.Karl Popper - 1959 - Studia Logica 9:262-265.
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  • The Triumph of the Darwinian Method.Michael T. Ghiselin - 1969 - University of California Press.
    A coherent treatment of the flow of ideas throughout Darwin's works, this volume presents a unified theoretical system that explains Darwin's investigations, evaluating the literature from a historical, scientific, and philosophical perspective.
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  • Problems of Life.L. von Bertalanffy - 1952 - Science and Society 18 (3):269-270.
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  • (4 other versions)The Logic of Scientific Discovery.K. Popper - 1959 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 10 (37):55-57.
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  • The Triumph of the Darwinian Method.Michael T. Ghiselin - 1973 - Philosophy of Science 40 (3):466-467.
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  • Form and Function: A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology.E. S. Russell - 1916 - Journal of the History of Biology 17 (1):151-151.
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  • Logik der Morphologie im Rahmen einer Logik der gesamten Biologie.Adolf Meyer - 1926 - Annalen der Philosophie Und Philosophischen Kritik 5 (9):294-294.
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  • (1 other version)Morphological Integration and Animal Evolution.D. T. Anderson - 1967 - Scientia 61 (2):83.
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  • Phylogenetic Systematics.Willi Hennig, D. Dwight Davis & Rainer Zangerl - 1980 - Philosophy of Science 47 (3):499-502.
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  • Sociobiology: Sense Or Nonsense?Michael Ruse - 1979 - Dordrecht: Reidel.
    In June 1975, the distinguished Harvard entomologist Edward O. Wilson published a truly huge book entitled, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis. In this book, drawing on both fact and theory, Wilson tried to present a com prehensive overview of the rapidly growing subject of 'sociobiology', the study of the biological nature and foundations of animal behaviour, more precisely animal social behaviour. Although, as the title rather implies, Wilson was more surveying and synthesising than developing new material, he com pensated by giving (...)
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