Between a rock and a hard place: second thoughts on Laibman’s Deep History and the theory of punctuated equilibrium with regard to intellectual evolution

In this article I reconsider Laibman’s Deep history (2007) in the light of Niles Eldredge and Stephan Jay Gould’s theory of punctuated equilibrium. I argue that the theory of punctuated equilibrium explains (1) why conceptions of inevitability and directionality in intellectual evolution may not be...

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Main Author: Altug Yalcintas
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Rosetti Internaţional 2012-11-01
Series:Journal of Philosophical Economics
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Online Access:http://www.jpe.ro/poze/articole/87.pdf