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Generic Features of Evolution and Its Continuity: A Transdisciplinary Perspective

Author(s) -

Ulrich Witt

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

theoria an international journal for theory history and foundations of science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.2

H-Index - 15

eISSN - 2171-679X

pISSN - 0495-4548

DOI - 10.1387/theoria.429

Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , epistemology , sociology , transdisciplinarity , environmental ethics , cognitive science , philosophy , computer science , psychology , artificial intelligence

Because of the intellectual attraction of the neo-Darwinian theory of evolution, its concepts are often borrowed to conceptualized evolutionary change also in non-biological domains. However, a heuristic strategy like that is problematic. An attempt is therefore made to identify generic features of evolution which transcend domain-specific characteristics. Epistemological, conceptual, and methodological implications are discussed, and the ontological question is raised how non-biological evolutionary theories can be accommodated within the Darwinian world view of modern sciences

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