Laws of Ecology and Their Promise of Explanations

A number of ecologists have put forward various proposals that ecology has laws, yet they have not explicated what role laws play in ecological explanations. Marcel Weber (1999), Lev Ginzburg and Mark Colyvan (2004) correct this deficiency and also make their case for laws of ecology: the principle...

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Main Author: Viorel Pâslaru
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Michigan Publishing 2022-01-01
Series:Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology
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Online Access:https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/ptpbio/article/id/2099/