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Causal, A Priori True, and Explanatory: A Reply to Lange and Rosenberg
Elgin, Mehmet; Sober, Elliott (Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2015)Sober [2011] argues that some causal statements are a priori true and that a priori causal truths are central to explanations in the theory of natural selection. Lange and Rosenberg [2011] criticize Sober's argument. They ... -
Popper's Shifting Appraisal of Evolutionary Theory
Elgin, Mehmet; Sober, Elliott (Univ Chicago Press, 2017)Karl Popper argued in 1974 that evolutionary theory contains no testable laws and is therefore a metaphysical research program. Four years later, he said that he had changed his mind. Here we seek to understand Popper's ... -
REDUCTIONISM IN BIOLOGY: AN EXAMPLE OF BIOCHEMISTRY
Elgin, Mehmet (Springer-Verlag Berlin, 2010)In this paper, I argue that the multiple realizability argument against reductionism does not work in biochemistry and that biochemistry as a reductionist project is a progressive research program. Since the anti-reductionist ... -
Theory-laden observation and incommensurability
Elgin, Mehmet (Vydavatelstvo Slovenskej Akad Vied Veda, 2008)In this Taper, I investigate the logical relation between two claims: (1) observations are theory-laden(1) and (2) there is no empirical common ground upon which to evaluate successive scientific theories that belong to ...