Theory Change In Science: Strategies From Mendelian Genetics Hardcover

Lindley Darden

This Challenging And Innovative Book Examines The Processes Involved In The Birth And Development Of New Scientific Ideas. The Author Has Searched For Strategies Used By Scientists For Producing New Theories, Both Those That Yield A Range Of Plausible Hypotheses And Ones That Aid In Narrowing That Range. She Goes On To Focus On The Development Of The Theory Of The Gene As A Case Study In Scientific Creativity. Her Discussion Of Modern Genetics Greatly Demystifies The Philosophy Of Science, And Establishes A Realistic Framework For Understanding How Scientists Actually Go About Their Work.

9780195067972

English

Oxford University Press Inc

09-12-1991

326

This will be a welcome and useful book for all those interested in the history and philosophy of genetics. Although primarily a philosopher of science, Lindley Darden has crafted a unique and challenging fusion of an historical with a philosophical approach. Refreshingly, she is not concerned with what ought to have been done, but what was done. Darden's book has a number of strong points: perhaps the most important of which is its attempt to show the underlying conceptual changes through which Mendelian theory underwent after 1900 in terms of several general strategies advocated by its proponents. --Mendel Newsletter