Science as a process : an evolutionary account of the social and conceptual development of science /
"Legend is overdue for replacement, and an adequate replacement must attend to the process of science as carefully as Hull has done. I share his vision of a serious account of the social and intellectual dynamics of science that will avoid both the rosy blur of Legend and the facile charms of r...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
1990.
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Edición: | Pbk. ed. |
Colección: | Science and its conceptual foundations.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations and Tables
- Preface
- 1. Science, Philosophy of Science, and the Science of Science
- 2. Up from Darwin
- 3. Up from Aristotle
- 4. A Clash of Doctrines
- 5. Systematists at War
- 6. Down with Darwinism-Long Live Darwinism
- 7. Down with Cladism-Long Live Cladism
- 8. The Need for a Mechanism
- 9. Secrecy and Bias in Science
- 10. The Visible Hand
- 11. A General Analysis of Selection Processes
- 12. Science as a Selection Process
- 13. Conceptual Interaction
- 14. Conclusion
- Appendices
- References
- Name Index
- Subject Index