作者: Justin Donhauser
DOI: 10.1016/J.SHPSC.2016.09.008
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摘要: The world's leading environmental advisory institutions look to ecological theory and research as an objective guide for policy resource management decision-making. In addition the theoretical broadly philosophical merits of doing so, it is therefore practically significant clear up confusions about ecology's conceptual foundations clarify basic workings inferential methods used in science. Through discussion key moments genesis branch ecology, this essay elucidates a general heuristic role teleological metaphors defuses certain enduring work ecology.