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    The Use and Abuse of Sir Karl Popper (1999)
    Springer
    Biology and philosophy 14 (1999), S. 481-504 
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    ISSN: 1572-8404
    Keywords: cladistics ; evolutionary theory ; Lamarckism ; metaphysical research programs ; operationalism ; Popper ; stage laws ; tautology ; testability
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Philosophy
    Notes: Abstract Karl Popper has been one of the few philosophers of sciences who has influenced scientists. I evaluate Popper's influence on our understanding of evolutionary theory from his earliest publications to the present. Popper concluded that three sorts of statements in evolutionary biology are not genuine laws of nature. I take him to be right on this score. Popper's later distinction between evolutionary theory as a metaphysical research program and as a scientific theory led more than one scientist to misunderstand his position on evolutionary theory as a scientific theory. In his later work Popper also introduced what he took to be “improvements” of evolutionary theory. Thus far these improvements have had almost no influence on evolutionary biology. I conclude by examining the influence of Popper on the reception of cladistic analysis.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1006554919188
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    The Professionalization of Science Studies: Cutting Some Slack (2000)
    Springer
    Biology and philosophy 15 (2000), S. 61-91 
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    ISSN: 1572-8404
    Keywords: epistemological relativism ; history of science ; interdisciplinary ; philosophy of science ; positivism ; Science Studies ; social studies of scientific knowledge ; sociology of science ; Whiggism
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Philosophy
    Notes: Abstract During the past hundred years or so, those scholars studying science have isolated themselves as much as possible from scientists as well as from workers in other disciplines who study science. The result of this effort is history of science, philosophy of science and sociology of science as separate disciplines. I argue in this paper that now is the time for these disciplinary boundaries to be lowered or at least made more permeable so that a unified discipline of Science Studies might emerge. I discuss representative problems that stand in the way of such an integration. These problems may seem so formidable in the abstract that no one in their right mind would waste their time trying to bring about a unified field of Science Studies. However, those of us who limit ourselves to the study of the biological sciences have already formed a society in which workers from all disciplines can share their expertise -- the International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1006547510796
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