Scientific Pluralism.
Title:
Scientific Pluralism.
Author:
Kellert, Stephen.
ISBN:
9780816698240
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (279 pages)
Series:
Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, v.19
Contents:
Contents -- Introduction: The Pluralist Stance -- 1. The Many Unities of Science: Politics, Semantics, and Ontology -- 2. Perspectival Pluralism -- 3. Plurality and Complementarity in Quantum Dynamics -- 4. Pluralism and the Foundations of Mathematics -- 5. Pluralisms in Economics -- 6. Theoretical Pluralism and the Scientific Study of Behavior -- 7. A New/Old (Pluralist) Resolution of the Mind-Body Problem -- 8. Explanations of the Evolution of Sex: A Plurality of Local Mechanisms -- 9. A Pluralist Interpretation of Gene-Centered Biology -- 10. Disciplinary Pluralism for Science Studies -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
Scientific Pluralism demonstrates the viability of the view that some phenomena require multiple accounts. Pluralists observe that scientists present variousÑsometimes even incompatibleÑmodels of the world and argue that this is due to the complexity of the world and representational limitations.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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