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    Modeling in the museum: On the role of remnant models in the work of Joseph Grinnell (1990)
    Springer
    Biology and philosophy 5 (1990), S. 3-36 
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    ISSN: 1572-8404
    Keywords: Material models ; semantic view of theories ; natural history ; ecology ; evolution ; museums ; Joseph Grinnell
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Philosophy
    Notes: Abstract Accounts of the relation between theories and models in biology concentrate on mathematical models. In this paper I consider the dual role of models as representations of natural systems and as a material basis for theorizing. In order to explicate the dual role, I develop the concept of a remnant model, a material entity made from parts of the natural system(s) under study. I present a case study of an important but neglected naturalist, Joseph Grinnell, to illustrate the extent to which mundane practices in a museum setting constitute theorizing. I speculate that historical and sociological analyses of institutions can play a specific role in the philosophical analysis of model-building strategies.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02423831
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    The metaphysical transition in farming: From the newtonian-mechanical to the eltonian ecological (1990)
    Springer
    Journal of agricultural and environmental ethics 3 (1990), S. 36-49 
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    ISSN: 1573-322X
    Keywords: agro-ecology ; ecology ; ethics ; Leopold ; metaphysics
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Energy, Environment Protection, Nuclear Power Engineering , Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition , Philosophy
    Notes: Abstract Modern agriculture is subject to a metaphysical as well as an ethical critique. As a casual review of the beliefs associated with food production in the past suggests, modern agriculture is embedded in and informed by the prevailing modern world view, Newtonian Mechanics, which is bankrupt as a scientific paradigm and unsustainable as an agricultural motif. A new holistic, organic world view is emerging from ecology and the new physics marked by four general conceptual features: Each level of organization from atoms to ecosystems (1) exhibits emergent properties, (2) exerts downward causation from whole to part, (3) is a systemically integrated whole, (4) the parts of which are internally related. Organic agriculture has been favourably compared with industrial agriculture by the United States National Academy of Science's Board on Agriculture. Aldo Leopold was among the first to criticize industrial agriculture and to envision a new motif for agriculture informed by ecology. A future post-modern ecological agriculture will help to solve the ethical problems engendered by modern mechanical agriculture.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02014479
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