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Whitehead's organic philosophy of science /

This work assumes that Leclerc has correctly interpreted the relationship of the earlier philosophy of science to the later philosophy of organism and that the "considerable change in Whitehead's theories about the problems of science" has yet to be elucidated. It is the purpose of th...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Plamondon, Ann L.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, 1979.
Edition:1st ed.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Part one : the development of Whitehead's thought
  • Geometry
  • Number
  • Part two : foundational concepts for the philosophy of organism
  • Organism and environment
  • The order of nature
  • Foundational concepts and evolution
  • Part three : metaphysics and a logic of science
  • Contemporary schools of thought in the philosophy of science in the English-speaking world
  • Laws
  • Induction
  • Explanation
  • Conceptual change
  • Reduction.