Mystery of Mysteries - Is Evolution a Social Construction?

With the recent Sokal hoax--the publication of a prominent physicist's pseudo-article in a leading journal of cultural studies--the status of science moved sharply from debate to dispute. Is science objective, a disinterested reflection of reality, as Karl Popper and his followers believed? Or is it subjective, a social construction, as Thomas Kuhn and his students maintained? Into the fray comes

About the author

Michael Ruse is the former Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Guelph. He is a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a Gifford Lecturer, and the author or editor of more than sixty books.

Summary

Beginning with Erasmus Darwin (grandfather of Charles) and ending with the work of the English game theorist Geoffrey Parker and the American paleontologist Jack Sepkoski, Ruse explicates the role of metaphor and metavalues in evolutionary thought and draws significant conclusions about the cultural impregnation of science.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Ruse, Ruse Michael
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.04.2001
• EAN: 9780674005433
• ISBN: 978-0-674-00543-3
• Weight: 435 g
• Illustrations: 12 halftones, 18 line illustrations
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > General, dictionaries; Evolution, popular science, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, Philosophy of Science, Evolution / Evolutionary biology