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Yorick's world : science and the knowing subject /
Peter Caws provides a fresh and often iconoclastic treatment of some of the most vexing problems in the philosophy of science: explanation, induction, causality, evolution, discovery, artificial intelligence, and the social implications of technological rationality. Caws's work has been shaped...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©1993.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: From Physics to the Human Sciences
- The Itinerary of an Attitude
- pt. I. Explanation. 1. Aspects of Hempel's Philosophy of Science. 2. Science and System: On the Unity and Diversity of Scientific Theory. 3. Gosse's Omphalos Theory and the Eccentricity of Belief. 4. Creationism and Evolution
- pt. II. Hume's Problem. 5. The Paradox of Induction and the Inductive Wager. 6. The Structure of Discovery. 7. Induction and the Kindness of Nature
- pt. III. Logic and Causality. 8. Three Logics, or the Possibility of the Improbable. 9. Mach's Principle and the Laws of Logic. 10. A Quantum Theory of Causality. 11. A Negative Interpretation of the Causal Principle
- pt. IV. Machines and Practices. 12. Science, Computers, and the Complexity of Nature. 13. Praxis and Techne. 14. On the Concept of a Domain of Praxis. 15. Individual Praxis in Real Time. 16. Towards a Philosophy of Technology. 17. Scientific Theory as an Historical Anomaly.