Beyond the Material and the Mechanical: Occam's Razor Is a Double-Edged Blade
Abstract. To confine scientific narrative to only material and mechanical causes is to ensure incomplete and at times contrived descriptions of phenomena. In the life sciences, and particularly in the field of ecology, causality takes on qualitatively distinct forms at different hierarchical levels....
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| 格式: | 电子 文件 |
| 语言: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
1995
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Zygon
Year: 1995, 卷: 30, 发布: 2, Pages: 249-266 |
| Further subjects: | B
formal cause
B Aristotelean causality B hierarchy theory B ecosystem development B Newtonianism |
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| 总结: | Abstract. To confine scientific narrative to only material and mechanical causes is to ensure incomplete and at times contrived descriptions of phenomena. In the life sciences, and particularly in the field of ecology, causality takes on qualitatively distinct forms at different hierarchical levels. The notion of formal cause provides for entirely natural and quantitative explanations of ecosystem behavior. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9744 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.1995.tb00068.x |