Philosophical Issues in Ecology: Recent Trends and Future Directions

Philosophical Issues in Ecology: Recent Trends and Future Directions

Philosophy of ecology has been slow to become established as an area of philosophical interest, but it is now receiving considerable attention. This area holds great promise for the advancement of both ecology and the philosophy of science. Insights from the philosophy of science can advance ecology in a number of ways. For example, philosophy can assist with the development of improved models ...

Philosophical Issues in Ecology

Dobzhansky’s (1964) sweeping generalization, “nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution,” provocatively captures the centrality of evolutionary theory in biological science (see also Dobzhansky 1973). But his rally call is also grievously partial. Ecology casts the same indispensable light in biology, particularly on evolution. Although the term ‘ecology’ was not coined un...

Japan’s Official Development Assistance: Recent Issues and Future Directions

The paper discusses recent issues and possible future directions of Japan’s official development assistance (ODA). While Japan remains the world’s largest donor nation, given its prolonged economic stagnation and mounting public sector debt, the Japanese government is under increasing public pressure to reduce ODA budgets and to use ODA in more explicit pursuit of Japan’s own economic and polit...

Recent Progress and Future Directions

We review the foundations of Einstein’s general theory of relativity, discuss recent progress in the tests of relativistic gravity, and present motivations for new generation of high-accuracy gravitational experiments. We discuss the advances in our understanding of fundamental physics anticipated in the near future and evaluate discovery potential of the recently proposed gravitational experim...

Organizational Ecology: Past, Present, and Future Directions