Should “Heredity” and “Inheritance” Be Biological Terms? William Bateson's Change of Mind as a Historical and Philosophical Problem (2012)
Radick, Gregory (Author)
Philosophy of Science
Volume: 79, no. 5
Issue: 5
Pages: 714-724
Publication date: 2012
Language: English
In 1894,William Bateson objected to the terms "heredity" and "inheritance" in biology, on grounds of contamination with misleading notions from the everyday world. Yet after the rediscovery of Mendel's work in the spring of 1900, Bateson promoted that work as disclosing the "principles of heredity." For historians of science, Bateson's change of mind provides a new angle on these terms at a crucial moment in their history. For philosophers of science, the case can serve as a reminder of the potential of Putnam's hypothesis of a division of linguistic labor for analyzing the semantic lives of scientific kind terms.
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