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18Introduction: Revisiting Garland Allen’s Views on the History of the Life Sciences in the Twentieth CenturyJournal of the History of Biology 49 (4): 581-582. 2016.
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51‘Extreme’ organisms and the problem of generalization: interpreting the Krogh principleHistory and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 40 (4): 65. 2018.Many biologists appeal to the so-called Krogh principle when justifying their choice of experimental organisms. The principle states that “for a large number of problems there will be some animal of choice, or a few such animals, on which it can be most conveniently studied”. Despite its popularity, the principle is often critiqued for implying unwarranted generalizations from optimal models. We argue that the Krogh principle should be interpreted in relation to the historical and scientific con…Read more
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28Duhem’s problem revisited: logical versus epistemic formulations and solutionsSynthese 197 (1): 337-354. 2020.When the results of an experiment appears to disconfirm a hypothesis, how does one know whether it’s the hypothesis, or rather some auxiliary hypothesis or assumption, that is at fault? Philosophers’ answers to this question, now known as “Duhem’s problem,” have differed widely. Despite these differences, we affirm Duhem’s original position that the logical structure of this problem alone does not allow a solution. A survey of philosophical approaches to Duhem’s problem indicates that what allow…Read more
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24Looking Toward the Next Fifty Years at the Journal of the History of BiologyJournal of the History of Biology 50 (4): 689-690. 2017.
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14Experimenting with sex: four approaches to the genetics of sex reversal before 1950History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 38 (1): 23-41. 2016.In the early twentieth century, Tatsuo Aida in Japan, Øjvind Winge in Denmark, Richard Goldschmidt in Germany, and Calvin Bridges in the United States all developed different experimental systems to study the genetics of sex reversal. These locally specific experimental systems grounded these experimenters’ understanding of sex reversal as well as their interpretation of claims regarding experimental results and theories. The comparison of four researchers and their experimental systems reveals …Read more
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