| Description |
xvi, 393 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
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 |
| Notes |
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-383) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Knowledge, Theory of.
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Science -- Philosophy.
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| LC no. |
92031834 |
| ISBN |
0520079191 (alk. paper) |
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