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A defence of the semantic conception of evolutionary theory

✍ Scribed by Paul Thomson

Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Year
1987
Tongue
English
Weight
416 KB
Volume
2
Category
Article
ISSN
0169-3867

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✦ Synopsis

issues which I believe my approach can help formulate and clarify. Sloep and van der Steen complain that "it is unclear what her semantic description of population genetics adds to their solution" (p. 11). That paper is clearly marked as an introduction to an entire research program, a taste of a different sort of philosophical approach to evolutionary biology; the issues mentioned as possible research topics there are discussed at length in my forthcoming book (1987).

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