Conceptual Issues in Ecology - Saarinen, Esa.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1982)
The Background and Some Current Problems of Theoretical Ecology -- A Succession of Paradigms in Ecology: Essentialism to Materialism and Probabilism -- A Note on Simberloff's 'Succession of Paradigms in Ecology' -- Dialectics and Reductionism in Ecology -- Reply -- Reductionistic Research Strategies and Their Biases in the Units of Selection Controversy -- Ecology - A Mixture of Pattern and Probabilism -- Useful Concepts for Predictive Ecology -- The Domain of Laboratory Ecology -- Null Hypotheses in Ecology -- The Role of Theoretical Concepts in Understanding the Ecological Theatre: A Case Study on Island Biogeography -- Randomness and Perceived-Randomness in Evolutionary Biology -- Why Misunderstand the Evolutionary Half of Biology? -- Natural Kinds, Natural History and Ecology -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
Keywords: Ecology .; Philosophy and science; Biology-Philosophy.; Ecology; Philosophy of Science; Philosophy of Biology