caa a22 4500 465803040 CHVBK 20180323112057.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170327e19901001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF02207378 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF02207378 Nordmann Alfred Philosophy Department, University of South Carolina, 29208, Columbia, SC, USA aut Persistent propensities: Portrait of a familiar controversy [Elektronische Daten] [Alfred Nordmann] Susan Mills and John Beatty's propensity interpretation of ‘fitness' encountered very different philosophical criticisms by Alexander Rosenberg and Kenneth Waters. These criticisms and the rejoinders to them are both predictable and important. They are predictable as raisingkinds of issues typically associated with disposition concepts (this is established through a systematic review of the problems generated by Carnap's dispositional interpretation of all scientific terms). They are important as referring the resolution of these issues to the development of evolutionary biology. This historical approach to the propensity interpretation of ‘fitness' draws attention to the precarious relation between philosophical clarification of scientific concepts and any given state of the empirical arts. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990 Fitness nationallicence dispositions and propensities nationallicence Carnap nationallicence historiography of science nationallicence history of the philosophy of science nationallicence Biology and Philosophy Kluwer Academic Publishers 5/4(1990-10-01), 379-399 0169-3867 5:4<379 1990 5 10539 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02207378 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02207378 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Nordmann Alfred Philosophy Department, University of South Carolina, 29208, Columbia, SC, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Biology and Philosophy Kluwer Academic Publishers 5/4(1990-10-01), 379-399 0169-3867 5:4<379 1990 5 10539 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer