http://www.rensenieuwenhuis.nl/wilson-vs-coleman-just-a-little-mistake/ "The extra-ordinary lies within the curve of normality" Thu, 10 Jan 2019 23:23:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.2 http://www.rensenieuwenhuis.nl/wilson-vs-coleman-just-a-little-mistake/comment-page-1/#comment-1262 Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:38:20 +0000 http://www.rensenieuwenhuis.nl/archive/wilson-vs-coleman-just-a-little-mistake/#comment-1262 In here there is more than what meets the eye: Wilson is famous indeed, but rejected by many of his colleages. What made Wilson known were his claims on the “emergent properties” of social systems, properties that supposedly could not be seen on the elements level. The thing is that it is still to be shown the real existence of emergent properties, and, on the other side, the reductionist approach of things like population genetics (what I actually do) is very effective at the moment of doing predictions. So I would take with a grain a salt any comment of Wilson on the correct level of analysis. His work on ants is fabulous, his generalizations of it… less.

]]> http://www.rensenieuwenhuis.nl/wilson-vs-coleman-just-a-little-mistake/comment-page-1/#comment-1261 Sun, 10 Feb 2008 10:30:26 +0000 http://www.rensenieuwenhuis.nl/archive/wilson-vs-coleman-just-a-little-mistake/#comment-1261 […] Wilson vs. coleman just a little mistake? In his book `Consilience’ Wilson, a founding father of sociolobiology, proposes a unification of scientific method. Basically, this comes down to an analytic method an the acknowledgment of a hierarchical ordering of knowledge. However, when h Submitted: 2 minutes ago Category: Science Submitter: RssFeed Website: http://www.rensenieuwenhuis.nl Report this link: Click here to report Comments: 0 […]

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