Criticism,commitment, and the growth of human sociobiology |
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Authors: | Harmon R Holcomb III |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Philosophy, University of Kentucky, 40506 Lexington, KY, U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | The fundamental unit of assessment in the sociobiology debate is neither a field nor a theory, but a framework of group commitments. Recourse to the framework concept is motivated, in general, by post-Kuhnian philosophy of scientific change and, in particular, by the dispute between E. O. Wilson and R. C. Lewontin. The framework concept is explicated in terms of commitments about problems, domain, disciplinary relations, exemplars, and performance evaluations. One upshot is that debate over such charges as genetic determinism, reductionism, adaptationism, and the biologization of human nature has been vexed. It has lost sight of human sociobiology's central problem, namely to help show that the modern synthesis is complete. |
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Keywords: | standards of assessment research framework completeness |
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