Protecting Florida Panthers
Protecting Florida Panthers
Historical-Comparativist Methods in Zoology
The chapter summarizes a prominent alternative to the dominant hypothesis-deduction method, one inspired by historian Thomas Kuhn’s argument that science often undergoes revolutions that cause rejection of accepted findings. However, the chapter shows that another alternative method, theory comparison, especially as espoused by Larry Laudan, also fails in allowing reliance on suspect evidence. The case study, about the Florida Panther, shows that scientists adopted flawed habitat models because they merely compared theories rather than searched for better ones.
Keywords: comparison, Florida Panther, habitat model, Kuhn, Laudan
Oxford Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs , and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us .
