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| Autore principale: | Harwood, Jonathan.
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| Titolo: | Metaphysical foundations of the evolutionary synthesis : a historiographical note / Jonathan Harwood. |
| Abstract: | 'I begin by demonstrating how the theoretical syntheses sought by two German zoologists of the interwar period, Alfred Kühn and Richard Woltereck, were constructed upon an anti-reductionist metaphysics. The following section considers whether the architects of the evolutionary synthesis might have endorsed a similar metaphysics. In the conclusion I explore how study of the evolutionary synthesis from this perspective might shed light on a more general question: the heuristic function performed by metaphysical assumptions in the biological sciences.' |
| In: |  Journal of the history of biology Vol. 27 (1994), p. 1-20 |
| Discipline: | Evoluzione--Persone. |
| Persone: | Kuhn, Alfred, 1885-1968. Woltereck, Richard, 1877-1944. |
| Luoghi: | Germania. |
| Sudd. cronologiche: | Secolo XX. |
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