2. Philosophers and Paradigms

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Preface VII
4. Acknowledgments XIII
5. 1. Science, Controversy, and the Question of a Honey Bee Language 1
6. 2. Philosophers and Paradigms 13
7. 3. Relativism and Strong Inference 33
8. 4. Two Hundred Years of Uncertainty 55
9. 5. The Odor-Search Paradigm: History and Revision 71
10. 6. The Dance Language Paradigm: Evolution and Acceptance 91
11. 7. A Parade of Anomalies: Learning 111
12. 8. A Parade of Anomalies: Odor 129
13. 9. Transition in Approaches: Testing the Dance Language Hypothesis 151
14. 10. Multiple Inference and “Crucial” Experiments 173
15. 11. The Social Network 187
16. 12. Reaffirming the Dance Language Hypothesis: Initial Attempts 207
17. 13. The Realism School and Interpretation of Behavior 231
18. 14. The Dance Language Controversy: Conflicts Between Paradigms 255
19. Excursuses 269
20. References Cited 373
21. Index 389