How Knowledge Grows The Evolutionary Development of Scientific Practice

• Main Author: Haufe, Chris (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2022
• Series: The MIT Press
• Subjects: Bio-ethics; History of science; Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge; evolutionary epistemology; kuhn; cultural evolution; Darwinian population; exemplar; disciplines; multiple discovery
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An argument that the development of scientific practice and growth of scientific knowledge are governed by Darwin's evolutionary model of descent with modification. Although scientific investigation is influenced by our cognitive and moral failings as well as all of the factors impinging on hum...