Cora Stuhrmann

Beyond Controversy? The Promotion and Early Critical Reception of Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, Fifty Years Later - Journal of the History of Biology Journal of the History of Biology -

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Beginning in the 1960s, philosophers of biology increasingly sought to clarify these inner-biological gaps, while also contributing to broader debates on determinism and reductionism shaping biology at the time. Now it's time for historians to analyze these debates and disciplinary developments! 3/3

It also adds another layer of explanation because these sub disciplines are in a somewhat conscious competition for recognition (Think DNA versus Darwin in images), funding and also terminological authority (Who does get to define a gene: molecular geneticist or evolutionary theorists?) 2/3

It helps to think of biology as a set of subdisciplines rather than one coherent discipline. This explains gaps in conceptual unity and the lack of established communication channels to solve them. 1/3

Die angeborenen Formen möglicher Erfahrung Die vorliegende Abhandlung entspringt dem Aufgabenkreis einer jungen Arbeitsgemeinschaft zwischen Geisteswissenschaft und vergleichender Psychologie, die das wichtigste Programm des neugegründeten Ph...

for instance, here: p. 302 about the need for "eine bewusste, wissenschaftlich unterbaute Rassenpolitik"

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Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences | University of California Press

You might enjoy reading our essay collection for the sociobiology anniversary, online.ucpress.edu/hsns

Deals with sociobiology and politics, but also places sociobiology into its biological and social contexts and addresses its disciplinary developments!