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Theories and Hypotheses in Biology
Many physicists and philosophers coming to the philosophy of science through the inanimate sciences find biology an untidy subject1 in certain...
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On Beliefs and Believing
Everyone has beliefs, with some of which, at least, he is familiar; but few understand the nature of belief. In this paper therefore I propose to...
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Cultural Conditioning
The topic discussed in this study is the extent to which the individual is conditioned by the culture in which he lives, but first it might be well...
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The Testing of Theories: Calculation
When an hypothesis has successfully passed the stage of testing by experiment and is assumed to be to that extent verified, it is passed on to the...
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Die Allgemeinen Gesetze der Organischen Evolution
Life is considered as a functional whole, but not in the holistic sense of the word, because of an essentially different interpretation of the role...
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The role of genes in life
In this paper two widely held ideas are criticized: (1) that chromosomal genes are the fundamental units of biological machinery and (2) that...
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Internal factors in evolution
1. It is likely that internal factors play an important role in restricting the possible avenues of evolutionary change from any starting point....
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The Individual Good
In the first section of this chapter I will introduce the good in connection with organic human needs, and in the second section I will argue that...
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Whichcote and the Intellectual Tradition
There is no satisfactory measure of the relative importance of religious writers, but the extent of their influence at least indicates to what degree...
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Joseph Henry Woodger, Curriculum Vitae
Joseph Henry Woodger is a dedicated scholar, a teacher, a research worker in biology, the philosophy of biology, its theory and metatheory and a very...
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Genetical Semantics and Evolutionary Theory
We seem to be essentially so constituted that in our thinking we find it easiest to use discrete counters. Indeed the very act of counting itself...
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Functionalism and the Negative Feedback Model in Biology
Any study of the philosophical literature dealing with the cluster of topics generally identified as ‘functional description’, ‘functional analysis’,...
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Artifactualism
It is generally acknowledged by those biologists who are concerned with the problem of human evolution that languages and material tools have played...