__________ Nils Roll-Hansen __________
Institute of Philosophy, University of Oslo, PB 1024 Blindern, N-0315 Oslo, Norway.
Main research focus: History and philosophy of 19th and 20th century biology, especially genetics; interaction of science and politics: eugenics, Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union, environmental science and politics, science policy.
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Roll-Hansen, N. 1998. Studying natural science without nature. Reflections on the realism of so-called laboratory studies.
Studies in the History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
29:
165—187.
Keywords:
anthropology of science •
history of biology •
methodology •
realism •
social constructivism •
social studies of science.
Roll-Hansen, N. 1998.
The meaning of reduction in biology.
In
Suárez, First International Conference on Philosophy of Science,
125—148.
Keywords:
history of biology •
reduction.
Roll-Hansen, N. 1990.
Croisement de lignées pures: de Johannsen á Nilsson-Ehle.
In
Fischer/Schneider, Histoire de la génétique,
99—125.
Keywords:
crossing experiments •
experimentation •
history of biology •
Nilsson-Ehle.
Roll-Hansen, N. 1989. The crucial experiment of Wilhelm Johannsen.
Biology and Philosophy
3:
303—329.
Keywords:
experimentation •
history of biology.
Roll-Hansen, N. 1985. A new perspective on Lysenko?
Annals of Science
42:
261—278.
Keywords:
history of biology •
Lysenkoism •
social studies of science.
Roll-Hansen, N. 1984. E.S. Russell and J.H. Woodger: The failure of two twentieth-century opponents of mechanistic biology.
Journal of the History of Biology
17:
399—428.
Keywords:
history of biology •
organicism •
Russell •
Woodger.
Roll-Hansen, N. 1983. The death of spontaneous generation and the birth of the gene: Two case studies of relativism.
Social Studies of Science
13:
481—519.
Keyword:
history of biology.
Roll-Hansen, N. 1980. Eugenics before World War II.The case of Norway.
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
2:
269—298.
Keywords:
eugenics •
history of biology •
social studies of science.
Roll-Hansen, N. 1979.
Reductionism in biological research: Reflections on some historical case studies in experimental biology.
In
Bärmark, Perspectives in Metascience,
157—172.
Keywords:
experimentation •
history of biology.
Roll-Hansen, N. 1979. Experimental method and spontaneous generation: The controversy between Pasteur and Pouchet 1859-64.
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
34:
273—292.
Keywords:
experimentation •
history of biology •
Pasteur •
Pouchet •
reduction •
spontaneous generation.
Roll-Hansen, N. 1978. Drosophila genetics: A research program.
Journal of the History of Biology
11:
159—210.
Keywords:
drosophila genetics •
history of biology •
science policy.
Roll-Hansen, N. 1978. The genotype theory of Wilhelm Johannsen and its relation to plant breeding and the study of evolution.
Centaurus
22:
201—235.
Keywords:
genotype •
history of biology •
phenotype •
plant breeding.
Roll-Hansen, N. 1976. Critical teleology: Immanuel Kant and Claude Bernard on the limitations of experimental biology.
Journal of the History of Biology
9:
59—91.
Keywords:
Bernard •
experimentation •
history of biology •
teleology.
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