Ernst Mayr's 'ultimate/proximate' distinction reconsidered and reconstructed
Ernst Mayr's 'ultimate/proximate' distinction reconsidered and reconstructed
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DOI：
10.1023/a:1025565119032
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发表时间：
2003-09-01
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2.5
通讯作者：
Ariew, A
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Ariew, A
自Ernst Mayr的《生物学中的因果》出版以来已经有41年了，在这本书中，Mayr最清楚地阐述了他对生物学中最终原因和近因之间有影响力的区别的看法。在批判性地评估迈尔的文章中，我发现了关于生物学解释的错误陈述和红鲱鱼。尽管如此，我认为坚持一个模拟的最终/近似的区别，因为它是指两种不同的解释，一个动态的其他统计。
It's been 41 years since the publication of Ernst Mayr's "Cause and Effect in Biology'' wherein Mayr most clearly develops his version of the influential distinction between ultimate and proximate causes in biology. In critically assessing Mayr's essay I uncover false statements and red-herrings about biological explanation. Nevertheless, I argue to uphold an analogue of the ultimate/proximate distinction as it refers to two different kinds of explanations, one dynamical the other statistical.