Exceeding our grasp :
Stanford, P. Kyle.
Exceeding our grasp : science, history, and the problem of unconceived alternatives / P. Kyle Stanford. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006. - xiv, 234 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-221) and index.
Realism, pessimism, and underdetermination -- Chasing Duhem: the problem of unconceived alternatives -- Darwin and pangenesis: the search for the material basis of generation and heredity -- Galton and the stirp theory -- August Weismann`s theory of the germ-plasm -- History revisited: Pyrrhic victories for scientific realism -- Selective confirmation and the historical record: "another such victory over the Romans"? -- Science without realism?
0195174089 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780195174083
2005051299
Inference.
Reasoning.
Science--Philosophy.
Q175.32.I54 / S73 2006
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Exceeding our grasp : science, history, and the problem of unconceived alternatives / P. Kyle Stanford. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006. - xiv, 234 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-221) and index.
Realism, pessimism, and underdetermination -- Chasing Duhem: the problem of unconceived alternatives -- Darwin and pangenesis: the search for the material basis of generation and heredity -- Galton and the stirp theory -- August Weismann`s theory of the germ-plasm -- History revisited: Pyrrhic victories for scientific realism -- Selective confirmation and the historical record: "another such victory over the Romans"? -- Science without realism?
0195174089 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780195174083
2005051299
Inference.
Reasoning.
Science--Philosophy.
Q175.32.I54 / S73 2006
/
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