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Response to Sloep and Van der Steen by Elisabeth A. Lloyd is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Response to Sloep and Van der Steen about?
THE SEMANTIC VIEW specifications, Sloep and van der Steen proceed to criticize the semantic view of theories for making overly "tidy" (their term) and "weak" (they use "uninformative" as a synonym) the connections between theories and phenomena. But the semantic view of theories itself says nothing about how complicated or informative theory applications are in general. Whether a theory application is complicated or uncomplicated, and informative or uninformative, depends on the nature of the theory being instantiated. To take an example, instantiations of selection theories (like frequencydependent theories, kin-selection theories, etc.) are more or less complicated and informative depending on how one defines "fitness" and "natural selection." On the propensity interpretations of "fitness" and "natural selection" (Brandon 1978, Mills and Beatty 1979), instantiations of selection theories are more complicated and informative than on interpretations of "fitness" and "natural selection" based exclusively on actual descendant contribution. To claim, as Sloep and van der Steen do, that empirical applications of semantically construed theories are "obviously simple and straightforward"
Who reads Response to Sloep and Van der Steen?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Arts and Humanities.
- Author
- Elisabeth A. Lloyd
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands; Springer-Verlag; Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science and Business Media LLC (ISSN 0169-3867)
- Published
- 1987
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)