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<h2><a href="#accounts-from-the-philosophy-of-science" name="accounts-from-the-philosophy-of-science"></a>Accounts from the Philosophy of Science</h2>
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<p>(Towards another chapter. What l want to do is: ,</p>
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<p>as a good explanation for the occurance of the same phenomenon. He would know perfectly well that the earth, being fixed, could not rotate on its axis. And even if it could, why should this influence the daily ritual of Ra?</p>
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<p>We consider an explanation good if it maps a statement about the explicandum onto the theory, or body of belief, which we currently hold.</p>
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<p>[Main text of argument. In the tradition of ‘philosophy of science’ I intend to draw on examples from two genuine debates, drawn in this instance from the development of the theory of evolution. These debates are</p>
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<p>The debate between Huxley and Kropotkin over whether co-operation or competition was the more important factor in the survival of species.</p>
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<p>Kropotkin, a leading Anarchist, sought to show that human beings (among other animals) were inherently co-operative, and (implied conclusion) would get along fine in the absence of government. Huxley, a Tory, sought to show that, on the contrary, competition (and, implicitly, capitalism) red in tooth and claw was ‘natural’.</p>
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<p>The debate between Bateson and Kammerer over whether acquired characteristics were inherited.</p>
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<p>Kammerer, then the only scientist capable of breeding many species of amphibian in captivity, showed in a series of experiments that characteristics aquired by parents were inherited by their offspring. Bateson, in a series of increasingly virulent attacks, ultimately claimed that these experiments were fraudulent. As no-one else was even capable of breeding the creatures involved, they could not be repeated.</p>
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<p>Kammerer was a communist, and the implicit argument behind his work was that human beings were perfectable; that some parts of the benefits of humane education and culture would be transmitted. Bateson was again a Tory, though not as politically committed as the other figures discussed.</p>
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<p>The debate between <a href="HuxleyKropotkin.html">Huxley and Kropotkin</a> over whether co-operation or competition was the more important factor in the survival of species.</p>
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<p>Kropotkin, a leading Anarchist, sought to show that human beings (among other animals) were inherently co-operative, and (implied conclusion) would get along fine in the absence of government. Huxley, a Tory, sought to show that, on the contrary, competition (and, implicitly, capitalism) red in tooth and claw was ‘natural’.</p>
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<p>The debate between <a href="BatesonKammerer.html">Bateson and Kammerer</a> over whether acquired characteristics were inherited.</p>
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<p>Kammerer, then the only scientist capable of breeding many species of amphibian in captivity, showed in a series of experiments that characteristics aquired by parents were inherited by their offspring. Bateson, in a series of increasingly virulent attacks, ultimately claimed that these experiments were fraudulent. As no one else was even capable of breeding the creatures involved, the experiments could not be repeated.</p>
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<p>Kammerer was a communist, and the implicit argument behind his work was that human beings were perfectable; that some parts of the benefits of humane education and culture would be transmitted. Bateson was again a Tory, though not as politically committed as the other figures discussed.</p>
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<p>In these debates it is clear that the protagonists sought ot explain a phenomenon - in this case evolution - in terms of theories which supported their own views of the world. The act of explanation was clearly being used as a polemic act, to try to pursuade the explainee of the correctness of the explainers ideological stance]</p>
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<h2><a href="#acknowledgments" name="acknowledgments"></a>Acknowledgments</h2>
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<p>I am grateful to Vernon Pratt for helping me clarify the consequences that this doctrine has for the concepts of ‘theory’ and ‘belief’. lf it is the case that there is no access to a ‘real world’, then all statements about the nature of the world are of equal - undifferentiable - validity (except in so far as some aesthetic criteria may be applied to them). It remains possible to differentiate between a belief - an unsupported statement about the nature of the world - and a theory: a statement that the world has some property as a consequence of certain other properties which it may have. However, it seems to me that this distinction is of little practical importance.</p>
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