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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hull, David L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1990.
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