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Reason and Rationality in Natural Science: A Group of Essays
Reason and Rationality in Natural Science A Group of Essays Author:Nicholas Rescher A collection of essays on fundamental issues regarding scientific knowledge. Contents: Systematic Essays: "Science and the Epistemic Authority of Logical Analysis," Jay F. Rosenberg; "Varieties of Understanding," Robert Brandom; "Theory Families, Plausibility and the Defense of Modest Realism," Rom Harre; "Scientific Rationality and Its Reconstr... more »uction," Jurgen Mittelstrass; "Conservatism and the Data Base," William Lycan. Historical Essays: "Darwin's Achievement," Philip Kitcher; "A Purely Scientific Temper": Victorian Expressions of the Ideal of an Autonomous Science," Robert E. Butts.« less