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The Scientific Status of Darwinism
- 1.0370206 - FLÚ 2012 RIV GB eng C - Conference Paper (international conference)
Havlík, Vladimír
The Scientific Status of Darwinism.
Knowledge, Value, Evolution. London: College Publications, 2011 - (Hříbek, T.; Hvorecký, J.), s. 85-98. Texts in Philosophy, 15. ISBN 978-1-84890-043-1.
[Knowledge, Value, Evolution. Praha (CZ), 23.11.2009-25.11.2009]
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA401/08/0904
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z90090514
Keywords : Darwinism * scientific theory * axiomatization
Subject RIV: AA - Philosophy ; Religion
The philosophical attempt to explain the scientific status of Darwinism has been given significant attention in the methodology of science. Darwinism, unlike the physical theories which act as the model of what is scientific, does not meet the usual mathematical-experimental requirements and, due to this exceptional character, raises the philosophical question of how we might either reformulate the what it means for theories to be scientific or deny the scientific status of Darwinism. The aim of this paper is review some of discussions of this question in the philosophy of science, to find an acceptable and defensible position in the spectrum of opinion, and to assess the future perspective for this evolutionary process of philosophical reflection.
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