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Scientific Pluralism Reconsidered : A New Approach to the (Dis)Unity of Science /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Ruphy, Stephanie, 1968- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Publicado: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Languages, Methods, Objects
  • The Linguistic Unity of the Vienna Circle
  • The Question of the Unity of the Object Domain of the Sciences in Carnap's Work
  • Traditional Methodological Unities
  • Hacking's Styles of Scientific Reasoning
  • Ontological Enrichment and "Foliated Pluralism"
  • 2. Intertheoretic Relations and Their Metaphysical Import
  • Metaphysical Foundations of Antireductionist Theses
  • From the Failure of Reductionism to the Disorder of Things: A Problematic Inference
  • Against Cartwright's Nomological Metaphysical Pluralism
  • Ontological Order and Nomological Disorder in the Structuralist Approach
  • Nonreductive Intertheoretic Relations and Unity of Nature
  • Intermediate Conclusion
  • 3. Representations
  • Current Defining Lines of the Monism versus Pluralism Debate
  • Simulations of Real-World Physical Systems: A Case of Permanent Incompatible Plurality
  • Taxonomic Pluralism.