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Exceeding our grasp : science, history, and the problem of unconceived alternatives / P. Kyle Stanford.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2006. New York :Description: xiv, 234 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0195174089 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780195174083
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LOC classification:
  • Q175.32.I54 S73 2006
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Contents:
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?
List(s) this item appears in: Hindi - P 10126 to 10276
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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?

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