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The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science Advance Access originally published online on June 23, 2007
The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 2007 58(3):409-422; doi:10.1093/bjps/axm021
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Copyright © The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of British Society for the Philosophy of Science.

Whence Philosophy of Biology?

Jason M. Byron

Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA

jmb165{at}pitt.edu


  Abstract

A consensus exists among contemporary philosophers of biology about the history of their field. According to the received view, mainstream philosophy of science in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s focused on physics and general epistemology, neglecting analyses of the ‘special sciences’, including biology. The subdiscipline of philosophy of biology emerged (and could only have emerged) after the decline of logical positivism in the 1960s and 70s. In this article, I present bibliometric data from four major philosophy of science journals (Erkenntnis, Philosophy of Science, Synthese, and the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science), covering 1930–59, which challenge this view.

1 Introduction
2 Methods
3 Results
4 Conclusions


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