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243The impact of 'sustainability' on the field of environmental scienceIn Gunnar Skirbekk (ed.), The notion of sustainability and its normative implications, Scandinavian University Press. pp. 29-55. 1994.The budding notion of sustainability is analyzed using the notions of an interdisciplinary versus a multidisciplinary field by Lindley Darden and Nancy Maul
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34Methodology revitalized?British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 44 (2): 231-249. 1993.Controversies in science have a tendency to be long-lasting. Moreover, they tend to wither rather than be solved by sorting out the arguments pro and con. Barring the sociological dimension, an important factor in the perpetuation of scientific controversies seems to be the contestants' passion for broad philosophical theses when it comes to defending their respective positions. In this paper one such controversy is analysed. It involves the alleged use of Popperian falsificationism to defend a …Read more
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30A natural alliance of teaching and philosophy of scienceEducational Philosophy and Theory 20 (2). 1988.
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27Design for collective intelligence: pop-up communities in MOOCsAI and Society 33 (1): 91-100. 2018.
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23The nature of evolutionary theory: The semantic challenge (review)Biology and Philosophy 2 (1): 1-15. 1987.
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16Syntacticism versus semanticism: Another attempt at dissolution (review)Biology and Philosophy 2 (1): 33-41. 1987.
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15The nature of evolutionary theory: The semantic challengeBiology and Philosophy 2 (1): 1-15. 1987.
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12A natural alliance of teaching and philosophy of scienceEducational Philosophy and Theory 20 (2): 24-32. 1988.
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10Null Hypotheses in Ecology: Towards the Dissolution of a ControversyPSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1986. 1986.Ever since ecology's inception, the concept of competition has generated discussion. Recent discussions have focused on the role of interspecific competition in shaping the structure of ecological communities. More in particular, ecologists are split up over the validity of a method that is currently in vogue to discredit explanations of community structure in terms of competition theory. An analysis of this controversy is presented which attempts to show that the discussions so far have focused…Read more
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9Syntacticism versus semanticism: Another attempt at dissolutionBiology and Philosophy 2 (1): 33-41. 1987.
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1Null Hypotheses in Ecology: Towards the Dissolution of a ControversyPSA Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1986 (1): 307-313. 1986.In present day ecology, competition is a subject typically generating controversies that pervade the whole field. Ecology is concerned with relations between organisms and their environment. As the environment of any organism has biotic besides physical components, relations between organisms are obviously important. Competition is one of them. According to many ecologists it crucially affects the fate of populations and species. Precisely this assumption has led to vigorous debates (cf. Lewin 1…Read more