Conservation biology theory definition

Conservation biology increasingly looks like a pragmatic or instrumental endeavor.
One possible response would be to develop a pragmatist or instrumentalist philosophy of science which de-emphasizes truth and empirical adequacy (Dewey 1938; Laudan 1978).
Let’s consider how one might develop a more pragmatic philosophy of science.

As Sahotra Sarkar writes, Thus, in conservation biology, like computer science and unlike most of ecology, theoretical research consists of devising algorithms rather than formulating models and theories.