Unity and Disunity in Evolutionary Biology: Deconstructing Darwinism
DeLisle, Richard G., Esposito, Maurizio, Ceccarelli, David
- 出版商: Springer
- 出版日期: 2024-09-26
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- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 612
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- ISBN: 3031426282
- ISBN-13: 9783031426285
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It is not uncommon to see in major areas of research concerned with science that historical studies are accompanied by the rise of complementary or contradictory historiographies. With time, it seems, scholars discover new approaches to study topics, thus questioning old concepts, traditions, periodizations and historical labels. Apparently, this has not been the case in evolutionary thought. In that area, the main historiographic labels such as Darwinian Revolution, Eclipse of Darwinism, and Modern Synthesis have been in place and largely uncontested for about 50 years. Such labels seem to work as irrefutable, and often hidden, premises of many historical reconstructions, philosophical analyses, and scientific conceptualizations.
This volume aims to move beyond this state of affair, opening new thinking avenues by revisiting the traditional historiography and laying the groundwork for establishing a "new historiography" that considers the intertwined threads that compose evolutionary biology. Notably, evolutionary studies seem to have been marked by the tension between unification attempts and the proliferation of approaches, methodologies, and styles of thinking. As the contributors to this volume illustrate, research traditions branched off throughout the history of evolutionary thought, before and after Charles Darwin. The resulting complexity challenges traditional thinking categories, throwing a somewhat different light on a more recent label like the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis. More than 40 years after the now classic, The Evolutionary Synthesis: Perspectives on the Unification of Biology (1980), edited by Ernst Mayr and William Provine, the contributors to this volume aim to reevaluate where evolutionary biology stands today.商品描述(中文翻譯)
在與科學相關的主要研究領域中，伴隨著歷史研究的興起，出現了互補或相互矛盾的歷史學派並不罕見。隨著時間的推移，學者們似乎發現了研究主題的新方法，因此質疑舊有的概念、傳統、時期劃分和歷史標籤。然而，在進化思想領域似乎並非如此。在該領域中，主要的歷史學標籤，如達爾文革命、達爾文主義的衰落和現代綜合說，已經存在並且在大約50年的時間裡基本上沒有受到質疑。這些標籤似乎被視為不可辯駁的，並且經常隱含在許多歷史重建、哲學分析和科學概念化中。
本書旨在超越這種現狀，通過重新審視傳統的歷史學，為建立一種考慮到構成進化生物學的交織線索的「新歷史學」奠定基礎，開拓新的思維途徑。值得注意的是，進化研究似乎一直受到統一嘗試和方法、方法論和思維風格的多樣化之間的張力的影響。正如本書的貢獻者所說，進化思想的歷史中，在查爾斯·達爾文之前和之後，研究傳統分支出來。由此產生的複雜性挑戰了傳統的思維範疇，對於像「擴展進化綜合說」這樣的較新的標籤投下了一種略有不同的光。
在經過現在已經成為經典的《進化綜合說：對生物學統一的觀點》（1980年，由恩斯特·邁爾和威廉·普羅文編輯）40多年後，本書的貢獻者們旨在重新評估進化生物學的現狀。
作者簡介
Richard G. Delisle owns a PhD in paleoanthropology (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) and a PhD in philosophy (University of Montreal, Canada). He teaches evolutionary biology and history/philosophy of science in the programs of archaeology, philosophy, and liberal education at the University of Lethbridge (Canada). His research interest focuses on the multidisciplinary quest of understanding evolutionary studies under the intimate light of its past and current developments.
Maurizio Esposito owns a PhD in History and Philosophy of Science (University of Leeds). He teaches History and Philosophy of Biology in the Faculty of Science of the University of Lisbon (Portugal). His research interests focus on the historical development of life sciences as well as its social and philosophical implications.
David Ceccarelli owns a PhD in Historical, Social and Philosophical Sciences (University of Rome "Tor Vergata"). He has taught History of Science at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata" and at the University of Florence. His research interests focus on the history and historiography of evolutionary biology, the history of evolutionary social theories and the visual history of life sciences.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
Richard G. Delisle擁有古人類學博士學位（南非金山大學）和哲學博士學位（加拿大蒙特利爾大學）。他在加拿大萊斯布里奇大學的考古學、哲學和通識教育項目中教授演化生物學和科學史/哲學。他的研究興趣集中在多學科的探索，以深入了解演化研究在其過去和當前發展的燈下。
Maurizio Esposito擁有歷史和科學哲學博士學位（利茲大學）。他在里斯本大學（葡萄牙）的科學學院教授生物學的歷史和哲學。他的研究興趣集中在生命科學的歷史發展以及其社會和哲學意義。
David Ceccarelli擁有歷史、社會和哲學科學博士學位（羅馬“托爾韋加塔”大學）。他曾在羅馬“托爾韋加塔”大學和佛羅倫薩大學教授科學史。他的研究興趣集中在演化生物學的歷史和史學、演化社會理論的歷史以及生命科學的視覺歷史。
