Size: 8vo <9 3/4". x + 149pp. Internally clean. Binding firm, spine slightly cocked. Edges very slightly spotted or marked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Science & Technology; Philosophy. ISBN: 022600662X. ISBN/EAN: 9780226006628. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 47008.

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T�tulo

Unsimple Truths: Science, Complexity and Policy

Editor

University of Chicago Press

Fecha de publicaci�n

2012

Idioma

Ingl�s

ISBN 10

022600662X

ISBN 13

9780226006628

Encuadernaci�n

Softcover

Edici�n

Reprint.

Estado

Near Fine

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The world is complex, but acknowledging its complexity requires an appreciation for the many roles context plays in shaping natural phenomena. In Unsimple Truths, Sandra Mitchell argues that the long-standing scientific and philosophical deference to reductive explanations founded on simple universal laws, linear causal models, and predict-and-act strategies fails to accommodate the kinds of knowledge that many contemporary sciences are providing about the world. She advocates, instead, for a new understanding that represents the rich, variegated, interdependent fabric of many levels and kinds of explanation that are integrated with one another to ground effective prediction and action.

Mitchell draws from diverse fields including psychiatry, social insect biology, and studies of climate change to defend “integrative pluralism”—a theory of scientific practices that makes sense of how many natural and social sciences represent the multi-level, multi-component, dynamic structures they study. She explains how we must, in light of the now-acknowledged complexity and contingency of biological and social systems, revise how we conceptualize the world, how we investigate the world, and how we act in the world. Ultimately Unsimple Truths argues that the very idea of what should count as legitimate science itself should change.

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Sandra D. Mitchell is professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh and the author of Biological Complexity and Integrative Pluralism.

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