__________ Donald Thomas Campbell (1916-1996) __________
Trained as a social psychologist (he studied with Edward Tolman and Egon Brunswik at the University of California, Berkeley), Campbell did his major work at Northwestern University. He was a "nimble-minded social scientist who left his mark on half a dozen disciplines and helped revolutionize the fundamental principles of scientific inquiry common to them all" (New York Times). A master methodologist, Campbell devised the method of quasi-experimentation, a statistics-based approach that allows to replicate the effects of truly randomized studies that often are impossible in the world of human interactions. He was the main American representative of evolutionary epistemology.
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Campbell, D.T. 1997. From evolutionary epistemology via selection theory to a sociology of scientific validity.
Evolution and Cognition
3:
5—38.
Keyword:
selectionism.
Heylighen, F./Campbell, D.T. 1996. Selection of organization at the social level: obstacles and facilitators of metasystem transitions.
World Futures
45:
181—212.
Campbell, D.T. 1994.
Toward a sociology of scientific validity.
In
Kim, Explaining Scientific Consensus,
#—xviii.
Campbell, D.T. 1993. Plausible coselection of belief by referent: All the objectivity that is possible.
Perspectives on Science
1:
88—108.
Campbell, D.T. 1991. Autopoietic evolutionary epistemology and internal selection.
Journal of Social and Biological Structures
14:
166—173.
Campbell, D.T. 1991. A naturalistic theory of archaic moral orders.
Zygon
26:
91—114.
Keyword:
naturalism.
Campbell, D.T. 1990.
Asch's moral epistemology for socially shared knowledge.
In
Rock, The Legacy of Solomon Asch,
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Campbell, D.T. 1990.
Epistemological roles for selection theory.
In
Rescher, Evolution, Cognition, and Realism,
1—19.
[Quotes] [cc]
Campbell, D.T. 1990.
Levels of organization, downward causation, and the selection-theory approach to evolutionary epistemology.
In
Greenberg/Tobach, Theories of the Evolution of Knowing,
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Cziko, G.A./Campbell, D.T. 1990. Comprehensive Evolutionary Epistemology Bibliography.
Journal of Social and Biological Sciences
13:
41—81.
Paller, B.T./Campbell, D.T. 1990.
Maxwell and van Fraassen on observability, reality, and justification.
In
Maxwell/Savage, Science, Mind and Psychology,
121—154.
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Bickhard, M.H./Campbell, D.T.
199#. Emergence. http://www.lehigh.edu/~mhb0/emergence.html
Campbell, D.T. 1989.
Erkenntnistheorie, evolutionäre.
In
Seiffert/Radnitzky, Handlexikon zur Wissenschaftstheorie,
61—63.
Campbell, D.T. 1989.
Fragments of the fragile history of psychological epistemology and theory of science.
In
Gholson et al., Psychology of Science,
21—46.
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Campbell, D.T./Paller, B.T. 1989.
Extending evolutionary epistemology to "justifying" scientific beliefs (A sociological rapprochement with a fallibilist perceptual foundationalism?).
In
Hahlweg/Hooker, Issues in Evolutionary Epistemology,
231—257.
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Campbell, D.T., ed. 1988.
Methodology and Epistemology for Social Science: Selected Papers. E.S. Overman, ed.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
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Keyword:
philosophy of science.
Campbell, D.T. 1988.
Descriptive epistemology: Psychological, sociological, and evolutionary. (From the William James Lectures of 1977).
In
Campbell, Methodology and Epistemology for Social Science,
435—486.
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Campbell, D.T. 1988. A general 'selection theory' as implemented in biological evolution and in social belief-transmission-with-modification in science. [A commentary on Hull.]
Biology and Philosophy
3:
171—177.
[Quotes] [cc]
Campbell, D.T. 1988. Popper and selection theory.
Social Epistemology
2(4):
371—377.
[cc]
Keyword:
selectionism.
Campbell, D.T. 1988.
Evolutionary epistemology.
In
Campbell, Methodology and Epistemology for Social Science,
393—434.
Originally published 1974 in Schilpp, The Philosophy of Karl R. Popper, 412—463.
Campbell, D.T. 1987.
Neurological embodiments of belief and the gap in the fit of phenomena to noumena.
In
Shimony/Nails, Naturalistic Epistemology,
165—192.
[Quotes] [chc]
Campbell, D.T. 1987.
Selection theory and the sociology of scientific validity.
In
Callebaut/Pinxten, Evolutionary Epistemology,
139—158.
[chc]
Campbell, D.T./Heyes, C.M./Callebaut, W. 1987.
Evolutionary epistemology bibliography.
In
Callebaut/Pinxten, Evolutionary Epistemology,
405—431.
[chc]
Campbell, D.T. 1986.
Science policy from a naturalistic sociological epistemology.
In , PSA, vol. 2,
14—29.
[chc]
Campbell, D.T. 1986.
Science's social system of validity-enhancing collective belief change and the problems of the social sciences.
In
Fiske/Shweder, Metatheory in Social Science,
108—135.
[chc]
Campbell, D.T. 1983.
Die Funktion des Rechts und der Primargruppen bei der sozialen Kontrolle.
In
Gruter/Rehbinder, Der Beitrag der Biologie zu Fragen von Recht und Ethik,
175—189.
Campbell, D.T. 1982.
The "blind-variation-and-selective-retention" theme.
In
Broughton/Freeman-Moir, The Cognitive-developmental Psychology of James Mark Baldwin,
87—97.
[chc]
Campbell, D.T. 1981.
Epistemologia evoluzionistica.
Roma: Armando Armando.
Campbell, D.T. 1979. A tribal model of the social system vehicle carrying scientific knowledge.
Knowledge
2:
181—201.
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Campbell, D.T.
1977. Descriptive epistemology: Psychological, sociological, and evolutionary. William James Lectures, Harvard University. [chc]
Reprinted in Campbell, Methodology and Epistemology for Social Science, 435—486.
Campbell, D.T. 1977. Comment on Robert J. Richard's "The natural selection model of conceptual evolution."
Philosophy of Science
44:
502—507.
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Campbell, D.T. 1975. On the conflicts between biological and social evolution and between psychology and moral tradition.
American Psychologist
30:
1103—1126.
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Keyword:
naturalism.
Campbell, D.T. 1975.
Reintroducing Konrad Lorenz to psychology.
In
Evans, Konrad Lorenz,
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Campbell, D.T. 1974.
"Downward causation" in hierarchically organized biological systems.
In
Ayala/Dobzhansky, Studies in the Philosophy of Biology,
179—186.
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Campbell, D.T. 1974.
Evolutionary epistemology.
In
Schilpp, The Philosophy of Karl R. Popper,
412—463.
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Reprinted in Campbell, Methodology and Epistemology for Social Sciences, 393—434.
Campbell, D.T. 1974.
Unjustified variation and selective retention in scientific discovery.
In
Ayala/Dobzhansky, Studies in the Philosophy of Biology,
139—161.
[Quotes] [chc]
Campbell, D.T. 1973.
Ostensive instances and entitativity in language learning.
In
Gray/Rizzo, Unity Through Diversity,
1043—1057.
[dtc]
Campbell, D.T. 1969.
A phenomenology of the other one: Corrigible, hypothetical and critical.
In
Mischel, Human Action,
41—69.
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Keyword:
naturalism.
Campbell, D.T. 1966.
Pattern matching as an essential in distal knowing.
In
Hammond, The Psychology of Egon Brunswik,
81—106.
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Reprinted in Kornblith, Naturalizing Epistemology, #—#. [cc]
Campbell, D.T. 1965.
Variation and selective retention in sociocultural evolution.
In
Barringer/Blanksten/Mack, Social Change in Developing Areas,
19—49.
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Keywords:
convergent evolution •
culture •
genetics •
progress •
resistance to evolutionary thinking in social science •
selective retention •
types of evolutionary theory in social science •
unilinear vs. multilinear progress •
variation.
Campbell, D.T. 1960. Blind variation and selective retention in creative thought as in other knowledge processes.
Psychological Review
67:
380—400.
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Keywords:
blind variation •
creative thought •
Gestalt psychology •
selective retention •
trial and error.
Campbell, D.T. 1959. Methodological suggestions from a comparative psychology of knowledge processes.
Inquiry
2:
152—182.
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Keywords:
aggregation •
comparative psychology •
dispositions •
induction •
methodology •
naturalism •
philosophy of science •
psychological testing •
social entities.
Campbell, D.T. 1956. Adaptive behavior from random response.
Behavioral Science
1:
105—110.
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Keywords:
adaptive behavior •
Ashby •
habit •
learning •
mechanism •
organismic fit to environment •
random response •
random variation •
selectionism.
Campbell, D.T. 1956. Perception as substitute trial and error.
Psychological Review
63:
331—342.
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Keywords:
adaptation •
Ashby •
learning •
levels of variation and selection •
perception •
problem solving •
random variation •
selectionism •
trial and error •
vision.
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