Science as a Process
An Evolutionary Account of the Social and Conceptual Development of Science

600 pages
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8 halftones
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© 1988
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Table of Contents

Contents
List of Illustrations and Tables
Preface
1. Science, Philosophy of Science, and the Science of Science
2. Up from Darwin
3. Up from Aristotle
4. A Clash of Doctrines
5. Systematists at War
6. Down with Darwinism—Long Live Darwinism
7. Down with Cladism—Long Live Cladism
8. The Need for a Mechanism
9. Secrecy and Bias in Science
10. The Visible Hand
11. A General Analysis of Selection Processes
12. Science as a Selection Process
13. Conceptual Interaction
14. Conclusion
Appendices
A. Annual Meetings
B. Presidents of the Society of Systematic Zoology
C. Editors of Systematic Zoology
D. Most-Cited papers in Systematic Zoology
E. Founding Fellows of the Willi Hennig Society
F. Citation Analysis of Leading Cladistic Texts
G. Personality Profiles of R. R. Sokal, G. Nelson, and G. Ball
H. Acceptance of Darwin’s Theory between 1859 and 1869
I. Best Student Papers
J. Interviews
References
Name Index
Subject Index
Preface
1. Science, Philosophy of Science, and the Science of Science
2. Up from Darwin
3. Up from Aristotle
4. A Clash of Doctrines
5. Systematists at War
6. Down with Darwinism—Long Live Darwinism
7. Down with Cladism—Long Live Cladism
8. The Need for a Mechanism
9. Secrecy and Bias in Science
10. The Visible Hand
11. A General Analysis of Selection Processes
12. Science as a Selection Process
13. Conceptual Interaction
14. Conclusion
Appendices
A. Annual Meetings
B. Presidents of the Society of Systematic Zoology
C. Editors of Systematic Zoology
D. Most-Cited papers in Systematic Zoology
E. Founding Fellows of the Willi Hennig Society
F. Citation Analysis of Leading Cladistic Texts
G. Personality Profiles of R. R. Sokal, G. Nelson, and G. Ball
H. Acceptance of Darwin’s Theory between 1859 and 1869
I. Best Student Papers
J. Interviews
References
Name Index
Subject Index
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