Ecological Understanding: The Nature of Theory and the Theory of NatureEcology is an historical science in which theories can be as difficult to test as they are to devise. This volume, intended for ecologists and evolutionary biologists, reviews ecological theories, and how they are generated, evaluated, and categorized. Synthesizing a vast and sometimes labyrinthine literature, this book is a useful entry into the scientific philosophy of ecology and natural history. The need for integration of the contributions to theory made by different disciplines is a central theme of this book. The authors demonstrate that only through such integration will advances in ecological theory be possible. Ecologists, evolutionary biologists, and other serious students of natural history will want this book. |
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Progress via Integration | 9 |
Conclusions and Prospects | 24 |
The Component Processes | 32 |
Conclusions and Prospects | 52 |
Theory and Its Empirical Content | 64 |
The Ontogeny of Theory | 85 |
Theory Maturity | 99 |
HI Understanding and Diversity of Theory | 106 |
Constraint and Objectivity in Ecological Integration I Overview | 151 |
Societal Constraints on Integration | 155 |
Scientific Objectivity and Changes in Paradigm | 156 |
Integration and Paradigms Affecting the Whole of Ecology | 159 |
Conclusions and Prospects | 164 |
Ecological Understanding and the Public I Overview | 166 |
Scientific versus Public Concepts of Theory | 167 |
The Nature of Scientific Conclusions | 169 |
Changes in Understanding | 113 |
Examples of Fundamental Questions | 120 |
Integration and Synthesis | 128 |
Radical Integration and Paradigms | 134 |
New Fundamental Questions | 143 |
Conclusions and Prospects | 146 |
PART IV | 149 |
The Content of Science in the Public Sphere | 173 |
The State of Public Knowledge of Ecology | 177 |
Rights and Responsibilities in Ecological Understanding | 180 |
What It All Means | 184 |
Literature Cited | 187 |
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