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Theoria : chapters in the philosophy of science /
Science is knowledge gained and justified methodically. It is achieved by research and theory formation. But what is a methodical procedure and what are methodically established justifications? What kind of principles must be observed in order to obtain the degree of objectivity that is generally cl...
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter,
[2018]
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Complexity, reductionism, and holism
- Predictability, determinism, and emergence
- Discovery
- Time
- Limits of science?
- Transdisciplinarity
- Pragmatic dualism in the philosophy of mind
- From Plato's world to Einstein's world
- Causality in Greek thought
- Scientific truth, Copernicus, and the case of an unwelcome preface
- Newton's concept of hypothesis and the origin of empiricism in physics
- Philosophical foundations of science in the 20th century
- The scientific mind. Does science make its own history?
- The moral substance of science
- Science and culture
- Naturalness and directing human evolution
- Through a glass darkly. On the enigmatic nature of science
- Quality assessment in higher education institutions from the perspective of those assessed
- The joy and woe of scientific policy advice
- Science: the last adventure.