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9780521115698

Philosophical Foundations for the Practices of Ecology

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    9780521115698

  • ISBN10:

    0521115698

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2009-12-14
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

Ecologists use a remarkable range of methods and techniques to understand complex, inherently variable, and functionally diverse entities and processes across a staggering range of spatial, temporal and interactive scales. These multiple perspectives make ecology very different to the exemplar of science often presented by philosophers. In Philosophical Foundations for the Practices of Ecology, designed for graduate students and researchers, ecology is put into a new philosophical framework that engages with this inherent pluralism while still placing constraints on the ways that we can investigate and understand nature. The authors begin by exploring the sources of variety in the practice of ecology and how these have led to the current conceptual confusion. They argue that the solution is to adopt the approach of constrained perspectivism and go on to explore the ontological, metaphysical, and epistemological aspects of this position and how it can be used in ecological research and teaching.

Table of Contents

Preface and acknowledgements
Introduction
Conceptual confusion in ecology and its causes
Causes of ecology's conceptual confusion
Finding ourselves in philosophical terms
Ecological pragmatism and constrained perspectivism - an introduction
Ecological pragmatism and constrained perspectivism - ontology
Ecological pragmatism and constrained perspectivism - metaphysics
Ecological pragmatism and constrained perspectivism - epistemology
Ecological pragmatism and constrained perspectivism - a summary
The practice of constrained perspectivism in ecology
What constrained perspectivism offers to the teaching of ecology
The heroic handy man and the future of ecology
Glossary of philosophical terms
Index
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