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analytical philosophy

>>> jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 12/14/00 06:55PM >>>


scientists like Gould or Lewontin get some of the grist for their
reflections from philosophy, methodology. They don't conjure their
philosophical reflections from measuring snails, etc.

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CB: And Haldane.

As between scientists, dialectics seems to have more affinity for biologists than physicists. Natch: physics , mechanics, tends to mechanicism. Biology tends to organicism and evolutionism.
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