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Publications [#244712] of Alexander Rosenberg

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  1. Rosenberg, A, Selection and Science: Critical notice of David Hull's Science as a Process, Biology and Philosophy, vol. 7 no. 2 (April, 1992), pp. 217-228, Springer Nature [doi].
    (last updated on 2025/07/03)

    Abstract:
    An examination of Hull's claims about the nature of interactors, replicators and selection, with special attention to how the genetic material realizes the first two types, and a critique of Hull's attempt to apply the theory of natural selection to the explanation of scientific change, and in particular the succession of theories. I conclude that difficulties attending the molecular instantiation of Hull's theory are vastly increased when it comes to be applied to "memes." © 1992 Kluwer Academic Publishers.


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