The philosophy of ecology : from science to synthesis
David R. Keller (Editor), Frank B. Golley (Editor)
This international collection of 23 seminal readings both illustrate the range of philosophical approaches available to ecologists and also provide a basis for understanding the thinking on which many contemporary environmental ideas are founded.
xiii, 366 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780820322209, 9780820322193, 0820322202, 0820322199
43598975
Preface to plant succession: an analysis of the development of vegetation / Frederic E. Clements
The individualistic concept of the plant association / Henry A. Gleason
The use and abuse of vegetational concepts and terms / Arthur G. Tansley
A succession of paradigms in ecology: essentialism to materialism and probabilism / Daniel Simberloff
Life after Newton: an ecological metaphysic / Robert E. Ulanowicz
An oyster bank is a biocönose, or a social community / Karl Möbius
On the reasons for distinguishing niche, habitat, and ecotope / Robert H. Whittaker, Simon A. Levin, Richard B. Root
Biological diversity in ecology / Ruth Patrick
Stability in ecological communities / Andrew Redfearn, Stuart L. Pimm
The bucket and the searchlight: two theories of knowledge / Karl R. Popper
The role of theory in ecology / Robert M. May
Community ecology, population biology, and the method of case studies / Kristin Shrader-Frechette, Earl D. McCoy
Mechanistic approaches to ecology: a new reductionism? / Thomas W. Schoener
The emergence of ecology as a new integrative discipline / Eugene P. Odum
"Reductionist holism": an oxymoron or a philosophical chimera of Eugene Odum's systems ecology? / Donato Bergandi
Dialectics and reductionism in ecology / Richard Levins, Richard C. Lewontin
Hierarchy: perspectives for ecological complexity / T.F.H. Allen, Thomas B. Starr
The metaphysics of evolution / David L. Hull
The spandrels of San Marco and the panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist program / Stephen J. Gould, Richard C. Lewontin
How to carry out the adaptationist program? / Ernst Mayr
Evolutionary ecology and the use of natural selection in ecological theory / James P. Collins
Evolution: the missing ingredient in systems ecology / Craig Loehle, Joseph H.K. Pechmann