ISBN:
9789400977969
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (384p)
,
online resource
Edition:
Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
DDC:
501
Keywords:
Philosophy (General)
;
Biology Philosophy
;
Science Philosophy
;
Ecology
Description / Table of Contents:
The Background and Some Current Problems of Theoretical EcologyA Succession of Paradigms in Ecology: Essentialism to Materialism and Probabilism -- A Note on Simberloff’s ‘Succession of Paradigms in Ecology’ -- Dialectics and Reductionism in Ecology -- Reply -- Reductionistic Research Strategies and Their Biases in the Units of Selection Controversy -- Ecology - A Mixture of Pattern and Probabilism -- Useful Concepts for Predictive Ecology -- The Domain of Laboratory Ecology -- Null Hypotheses in Ecology -- The Role of Theoretical Concepts in Understanding the Ecological Theatre: A Case Study on Island Biogeography -- Randomness and Perceived-Randomness in Evolutionary Biology -- Why Misunderstand the Evolutionary Half of Biology? -- Natural Kinds, Natural History and Ecology -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
DOI:
10.1007/978-94-009-7796-9
URL:
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