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So far, we have been considering criticism of sociobiology purportedly showing that there are things morally offensive about it. We must turn now to criticisms of a rather different kind: criticisms which purportedly show that sociobiology is a pseudo-science because it has various conceptual or methodological defects, either internal to the subject itself or as it relates to external reality. As before, when once a criticism has been introduced, I shall feel free to comment myself.
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Ruse, M. (1979). Epistemological Criticisms. In: Sociobiology: Sense or Nonsense?. Episteme. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9389-1_6
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