Yorick's world : science and the knowing subject /
Peter Caws.
Bok Engelsk 1993 Peter. Caws,· Electronic books
| Utgitt | Berkeley : : University of California Press, , c1993.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (xvi, 393 p. ) : ill. ;
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| Opplysninger | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph. - 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.
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| ISBN | 0520079191
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