The philosophy of ecology
Subtitle: from science to synthesis
By: edited by David R. Keller and Frank B. Golley.
Contributors: Keller, David R., 1962-; Golley, Frank B.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
Subjects: Ecology -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-359) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface to plant succession: an analysis of the development of vegetation / Frederic E. Clements; title: The individualistic concept of the plant association / Henry A. Gleason; title: The use and abuse of vegetational concepts and terms / Arthur G. Tansley; title: A succession of paradigms in ecology: essentialism to materialism and probabilism / Daniel Simberloff; title: Life after Newton: an ecological metaphysic / Robert E. Ulanowicz; title: An oyster bank is a bioco nose, or a social community / Karl Mo bius; title: On the reasons for distinguishing niche, habitat, and ecotope / Robert H. Whittaker, Simon A. Levin, Richard B. Root; title: Biological diversity in ecology / Ruth Patrick; title: Stability in ecological communities / Andrew Redfearn, Stuart L. Pimm; title: The bucket and the searchlight: two theories of knowledge / Karl R. Popper; title: The role of theory in ecology / Robert M. May; title: Community ecology, population biology, and the method of case studies / Kristin Shrader-Frechette, Earl D. McCoy; title: Mechanistic approaches to ecology: a new reductionism? / Thomas W. Schoener; title: The emergence of ecology as a new integrative discipline / Eugene P. Odum; title: "Reductionist holism": an oxymoron or a philosophical chimera of Eugene Odum's systems ecology? / Donato Bergandi; title: Dialectics and reductionism in ecology / Richard Levins, Richard C. Lewontin; title: Hierarchy: perspectives for ecological complexity / T.F.H. Allen, Thomas B. Starr; title: The metaphysics of evolution / David L. Hull; title: The spandrels of San Marco and the panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist program / Stephen J. Gould, Richard C. Lewontin; title: How to carry out the adaptationist program? / Ernst Mayr; title: Evolutionary ecology and the use of natural selection in ecological theory / James P. Collins; title: Evolution: the missing ingredient in systems ecology / Craig Loehle, Joseph H.K. Pechmann.