Conceptual Issues in Ecology

ISBN: 90-277-1391-X
Tekijät: toimittanut Esa Saarinen
Kustantaja: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1982
Saatavuus: Kirjakaupoista

Tässä kirjassa joukko johtavia ekologeja ja filosofeja tarkastelee ekologian ja kehitysbiologian käsitteellisiä ja filosofisia perusteita. Kokoelma perustuu Synthese-aikakauslehden teemanumeroon.

Sisällys:

Preface

Robert T. McIntosh: The Background and Some Current Problems of Theoretical Ecology

Daniel Simberloff: A Succession of Paradigms in Ecology: Essentialism to Materialism and Probabilism

Marjorie Grene: A Note on Simberloff's "Succession of Paradigms in Ecology"

Richard Levins and Richard Lewontin: Dialectics and Reductionism in Ecology

Daniel Simberloff: Reply

William C. Wimsatt: Reductionist Research Strategies and Their Bias in the Units of Selection Controversy

T.R.E. Soutwood FRS: Ecology - A mixture of Patters and Probabilism

Robert Henry Peters: Useful Concepts of Predictive Ecology

David B. Mertz and David E. McCauley: The Domain of Laboratory Ecology

Donald R. Strong, Jr.: Null Hypotheses in Ecology

Yrjö Haila and Olli Järvinen: The Role of Theoretical Concepts in Understanding the Ecological Theatre: A Case Study on Island Biogeography

William C. Wimsatt: Randomness and Perceived-Randomness in Evolotionary Biology

Leigh M van Valen: Why Misunderstand the Evolutionary Half of Biology?

A. Ross Kiester: Natural Kinds, Natural History and Ecology