'CAVEAT EMPTOR' OR ON THE SCIENTIFIC STATUS OF THE THEORIES OF LIFE'S ORIGIN

• Authors: Lugowski W.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The problem of scientificality and philosophical foundations of the theories of the origin of life has been recently vividly discussed (especially in The Journal of Theoretical Biology). It appeares that the opinion, that a mature 'science' can and should be philosophy-free (expressed by professional philosophers of positivistic orientation) is sometimes also shared by scientists themselves. It is argued, that the lack of philosophical selfconsciousness by some origin-of-life researchers may cause really caricatural presentation of theoretical results of this branch of science (as in case of the book of by Noam Lahav, 1999)

Keywords

EN

LIFE'S ORIGIN THEORIES

Discipline

• SCIENCE_OF_SCIENCE: SCIENCE OF SCIENCE

• Publisher: Science Studies Committee, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Zagadnienia Naukoznawstwa
• Year: 2004
• Volume: 40
• Issue: 4(162)
• Pages: 713-728
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Lugowski W.

• W. Lugowski, Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii PAN, ul. Nowy Swiat 72, 00-330 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

04PLAAAA0023513