Dr. George L. Engel Reading Reductionism:
“Animal conduct is known to many through the romantic tales of populizers, through the descriptive work of biological observers, or through the attempts of vitalists to show the inadequacy of physical laws for the explanation of life. Since none of these contributions are based upon quantitative experiments, they have led only to speculations, which are generally of an anthropomorphic or a purely verbalistic character. It is the aim of this monograph to show that the subject of animal conduct can be treated by the quantitative method of the physicist, and that these methods lead to the forced movement, or tropism, theory… Read More »Dr. George L. Engel Reading Reductionism: