Individualism and the Unity of Science: Essays on Reduction, Explanation, and the Special Sciences (The Worldly Philosophy: Studies at the Intersection of Philosophy and Economics) - Tapa blanda

Kincaid, Harold

 
9780847686636: Individualism and the Unity of Science: Essays on Reduction, Explanation, and the Special Sciences (The Worldly Philosophy: Studies at the Intersection of Philosophy and Economics)
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ISBN 10: 0847686639 ISBN 13: 9780847686636
Editorial: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1997

Sinopsis

In this original and important book, Harold Kincaid defends a view of the special sciences-all sciences outside physics-as autonomous and nonreducible. He argues that the biological and social sciences provide explanations that cannot be captured by explanations at the level of their constituent parts, and yet that this does not commit us to mysterious, nonphysical entitites like vital forces or group minds. A look at real scientific practice shows that the many different sciences can be unified in a way that leaves them each an autonomous explanatory role. This book will be of great interest to philosophers of science and social scientists.

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Harold Kincaid is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is the author of Philosophical Foundations of the Social Sciences: Analyzing Controversies in Social Research (Cambridge University Press).

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Editorial
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Año de publicación
1997
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Inglés
ISBN 10 
0847686639
ISBN 13 
9780847686636
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Número de páginas
174
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9780847686629: Individualism and the Unity of Science: Essays on Reduction, Explanation, and the Special Sciences (The Worldly Philosophy: Studies at the Intersection of Philosophy and Economics)

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ISBN 10:  0847686620 ISBN 13:  9780847686629
Editorial: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997
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