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Studies in the Philosophy of Biology

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Introductory Remarks
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    Chapter 2 From Aristotle to Democritus via Darwin: A Short Survey of a Long Historical and Logical Journey
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    Chapter 3 Evolutionary Theories after Lamarck and Darwin
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    Chapter 4 The Problem of Molecular Recognition by a Selective System
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    Chapter 5 A Geometric Model of Reduction and Emergence
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    Chapter 6 Changing Strategies: A Comparison of Reductionist Attitudes in Biological and Medical Research in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
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    Chapter 7 Cerebral Activity and Consciousness
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    Chapter 8 Reductionism in Biology
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    Chapter 9 Unjustified Variation and Selective Retention in Scientific Discovery
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    Chapter 10 Reduction, Hierarchies and Organicism
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    Chapter 11 ‘Downward Causation’ in Hierarchically Organised Biological Systems
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    Chapter 12 On the Relations Between Compositional and Evolutionary Theories
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    Chapter 13 Problems of Rationality in Biology
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    Chapter 14 Chance, Necessity and Purpose
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    Chapter 15 Polynomistic Determination of Biological Processes
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    Chapter 16 Scientific Reduction and the Essential Incompleteness of All Science
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    Chapter 17 Adaptive Shifts and Evolutionary Novelty: A Compositionist Approach
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    Chapter 18 Chance and Creativity in Evolution
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    Chapter 19 The Concept of Biological Progress
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    Chapter 20 On Chance and Necessity
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Chapter title
Unjustified Variation and Selective Retention in Scientific Discovery
Chapter number 9
Book title
Studies in the Philosophy of Biology
Published by
Palgrave, London, January 1974
DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-01892-5_9
Book ISBNs
978-1-349-01894-9, 978-1-349-01892-5
Authors

Donald T. Campbell, Campbell, Donald T.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
France 1 6%
Romania 1 6%
Unknown 14 88%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Professor 6 38%
Researcher 4 25%
Professor > Associate Professor 3 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 6%
Student > Master 1 6%
Other 1 6%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 4 25%
Social Sciences 4 25%
Environmental Science 2 13%
Computer Science 2 13%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 13%
Other 2 13%