Intersecting Processes

complexity & change in environment, biomedicine & society

October 23, 2010
by peter.taylor
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What do you do as a philosopher of science if you conclude that researchers have overlooked a significant issue for 100 years?

What do you do as a philosopher of science if you conclude that researchers have overlooked a significant issue for 100 years? What does philosophy of science prescribe? (I’ll reveal at the end something significant I think has been overlooked, … Continue reading →

September 23, 2010
by peter.taylor
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The challenge of integrating ecological dynamics into evolutionary theory II, Darwin's explanatory schema

As a form of historical explanation, natural selection is very restrictive; the world and its history must have a particular and atypical shape to fit it (Taylor 1987). To develop this claim, let me start with Darwin himself, who, in … Continue reading →