Nature, design, and science : the status of design in natural science /
"Although the scientific illegitimacy of supernatural design is typically asserted with enormous confidence and vigor, there has been surprisingly little actual work on such key foundational issues as even what design is and on specific criteria for assessing its legitimacy, or lack, as a scien...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©2001.
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Colección: | SUNY series in philosophy and biology.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- I. Design basics
- Design preliminaries
- Science and finite design
- II. Supernatural design
- Supernatural design: preliminary basics
- Identifying supernatural design: primary marks
- Identifying supernatural design: secondary marks
- Design in nature
- III. Boundaries of scientific legitimacy
- Beyond the empirical
- The legitimacy criterion
- IV. The permissibility question
- Cases for impermissibility
- Legitimacy
- Are there any payoffs?
- Conclusion.