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Doing Integrated History and Philosophy of Science: A Case Study of the Origin of Genetics (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
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Doing Integrated History and Philosophy of Science: A Case Study of the Origin of Genetics (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 320
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This book offers an integrated historical and philosophical
examination of the origin of genetics. The author contends that an
integrated HPS analysis helps us to have a better understanding of
the history of genetics, and sheds light on some general issues in
the philosophy of science. This book consists of three parts. It
begins with historical problems, revisiting the significance of the
work of Mendel, de Vries, and Weldon. Then it turns to integrated
HPS problems, developing an exemplar-based analysis of the
development and the progress in early genetics. Finally, it
discusses philosophical problems: conceptual change, evidence, and
theory choice. Part I lays out a new historiography, serving as a
basis for the discussions in part II and part III. Part II
introduces a new integrated HPS method to analyse and interpret the
historiography in Part I and to re-examine the philosophical issues
in Part III. Part III develops new philosophical accounts which
will in turn make a better sense of the history of scientific
practice more generally. This book provides a practical defence of
integrated HPS: the best way to defend integrated HPS is to do it.
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