"The Status of the Hardy-Weinberg Law"

LORENZANO, PABLO

Nancy

Congreso; 14th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science; 2011

The aim of this communication is to analyze the status of the Hardy-Weinberg law within (classical) population genetics. The analysis will be carried out with the notions of the structuralist view of theories, specially those of fundamental law or guide-principle, specialization, and special law, having as a background a rational reconstruction of (classical) population genetics – sketched in this communication –  made within the framework of such a metatheory.