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THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
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| By: |
Richard Boyd (Editor), Philip Gasper (Editor), J. D. Trout (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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£44.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0262521563 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780262521567 |
| Publisher: |
MIT PRESS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
26 June, 1991 |
| Series: |
Bradford Books |
| Pages: |
816 |
| Description: |
The more than 40 readings in this anthology cover the most important developments of the past six decades, charting the rise and decline of logical positivism and the gradual emergence of a new consensus concerning the major issues and theoretical options in the field. |
| Synopsis: |
Using formal logic, Reconstructing the Past seeks to clarify and resolve the methodological issues that arise when biologists try to answer such questions as whether human beings are more closely related to chimps than they are to gorillas. It explores the case for considering the philosophical idea of simplicity/parsimony as a useful principle for evaluating taxonomic theories of evolutionary relationships. Bringing together philosophy, biology, and statistics, Sober builds a general framework for understanding the circumstances in which parsimony makes sense as a tool of phylogenetic inference.Elliott Sober is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the author of The Nature of Selection. |
| Illustrations: |
13 |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
MIT Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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