Synthesising Arguments and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis
Andrew Buskell
Synthesising Arguments and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis
by Andrew Buskell
3 February 2020
Philosophers of science are sometimes seen by practicing scientists as useless, or unnecessary. Take scientist, writer, and broadcaster Neil deGrasse Tyson. Tyson recently poked fun at philosophical questions and methods, wondering whether a philosopher could ever be a “productive contributor to our understanding of the natural world.1” And many philosophers of science are familiar with the famous...