Theory change in science : strategies from Mendelian genetics /
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| Author / Creator: | Darden, Lindley |
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| Imprint: | New York : Oxford University Press, 1991. |
| Description: | xi, 314 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Monographs on the history and philosophy of biology |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1313618 |
Table of Contents:
- 1.. Introduction
- 2.. Philosophical Preliminaries
- 2.1. Introduction
- 2.2. Strategies for Producing New Ideas
- 2.3. Strategies for Theory Assessment
- 2.4. Strategies for Anomaly Resolution and Change in Scope
- 2.5. Descriptive, Hypothetical or Normative Strategies?
- 2.6. Metascientific Vocabulary
- 2.7. Stages and Strategies
- 3.. The Problem of Heredity
- 4.. Historical Introduction
- 4.1. Introduction
- 4.2. A Note on Mendel
- 4.3. Rediscovery of Mendel's Work
- 4.4. Bateson and the Emergence of Genetics
- 5.. Mendelism, 1900-1903
- 5.1. Introduction
- 5.2. Component 1. Unit-characters
- 5.3. Component 2. Differentiating Pairs of Characters
- 5.4. Component 3. Interfield Connection to Cytology
- 5.5. Component 4. Dominance-recessiveness
- 5.6. Component 5. Segregation
- 5.7. Component 6. Explanations of Dihybrid Crosses
- 5.8. Additional Claims
- 5.9. Relations between Domain and Theoretical Components
- 5.10. Conclusion
- 6.. Unit-Characters, Pairs, and Dominance
- 6.1. Introduction
- 6.2. Changes to Component 1: Unit-characters
- 6.3. Components 2 and 4: Paired Allelomorphs and Dominance-recessiveness
- 6.4. Strategies: Complicate, Specialize, Add, Delete
- 7.. Boveri-Sutton Chromosome Theory
- 7.1. Introduction
- 7.2. Weismann and Nineteenth-Century Cytology
- 7.3. Boveri-Sutton Chromosome Theory, 1903-1904
- 7.4. Sex Chromosomes
- 7.5. Assessments of the Chromosome Theory, 1906-1910
- 7.6. Strategy of Using Interrelations
- 7.7. Conclusion
- 8.. Tests of Segregation
- 8.1. Introduction
- 8.2. Cuenot's 2:1 Ratios
- 8.3. Strategy of Delineate and Alter
- 8.4. Castle and Contamination
- 8.5. Strategies for Resolving Anomalies
- 9.. Reduplication, Linkage, and Mendel's Second Law
- 9.1. Introduction
- 9.2. The Reduplication Hypothesis
- 9.3. Strategies, including Delineate and Alter
- 9.4. Morgan and Sex Linkage
- 9.5. Strategies: Interrelations and Levels of Organization
- 9.6. Assessments: Reduplication versus Linkage
- 10.. The Chromosome Theory and Mutation
- 10.1. Introduction
- 10.2. Mapping and Non-disjunction
- 10.3. Bateson's Objections to the Chromosome Theory
- 10.4. Castle and the Debate about Linearity
- 10.5. Modularity and Alternative Hypotheses
- 10.6. The Problem of Mutation
- 10.7. Strategies: Using Interrelations and an Analog Model
- 11.. Unit-characters to Factors to Genes
- 11.1. Introduction
- 11.2. Conceptual Problems
- 11.3. Symbolic Representations
- 11.4. Terminology
- 11.5. A New Theoretical Entity and Its Properties
- 11.6. Strategies for Finding and Solving Conceptual Problems
- 12.. Exemplars, Diagrams, and Diagnosis
- 12.1. Introduction
- 12.2. Morgan's Exposition of the Theory of the Gene
- 12.3. Exemplars and Diagrams
- 12.4. Exemplars and Explanation
- 12.5. Monster and Model Anomalies
- 12.6. Diagnosing and Fixing Faults in the Theory
- 13.. Genetics and Other Fields
- 13.1. Introduction
- 13.2. Solved and Unsolved Problems in 1926
- 13.3. Genetics and Embryology
- 13.4. The Chemical Nature of the Gene
- 13.5. Genetics and Evolution
- 13.6. Strategies: Interrelations and Levels of Organization
- 13.7. Conclusion
- 14.. Summary of Strategies from the Historical Case
- 14.1. Unit-characters to Genes
- 14.2. Multiple Factors and Multiple Alleles
- 14.3. Interfield Connection
- 14.4. Dominance-recessiveness
- 14.5. Segregation
- 14.6. Mendel's Second Law and Linkage
- 14.7. The New Component of Mutation
- 14.8. Additional Strategies from the Case
- 14.9. Conclusion
- 15.. General Strategies for Theory Change
- 15.1. Strategies for Producing New Ideas
- 15.2. Strategies for Theory Assessment
- 15.3. Strategies for Anomaly Resolution and Change of Scope
- 15.4. Conclusion
- 16.. Implications for Further Work
- Bibliography
- Index
