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Methodology, Metaphysics and the History of Science

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Scientific Realism and Incommensurability: Some Criticisms of Kuhn and Feyerabend
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    Chapter 2 How To Be A Good Philosopher Of Science: A Plea For Empiricism In Matters Methodological
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    Chapter 3 Feedback, Selection, and Function: A Reductionistic Account of Goal-Orientation
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    Chapter 4 Philosophy of Science 2001
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    Chapter 5 The Dethroning of the Philosophy of Science: Ideological and Technical Functions of the Metasciences
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    Chapter 6 Comments on Jost Halfmann’s ‘Dethroning the Philosophy of Science: Ideological and Technical Functions of the Metasciences’
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    Chapter 7 Philosophy of Science and the Origin of Life
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    Chapter 8 Sociobiology, Anti-Sociobiology, Epistemology, and Human Nature
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    Chapter 9 Substance and Its Logical Significance
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    Chapter 10 Tracking Down the Misplaced Concreton in the Neurosciences
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    Chapter 11 Does Popper’s Conventionalism Contradict His Critical Rationalism? Objections Against Popper in German Philosophy and Some Metacritical Remarks
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    Chapter 12 How to Explore the History of Ancient Mathematics?
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    Chapter 13 Nature on Trial: The Case of the Rooster that Laid an Egg
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    Chapter 14 Reflections on ‘Nature on Trial’
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    Chapter 15 Toward the Vindication of Friedrich Engels
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Chapter title
Feedback, Selection, and Function: A Reductionistic Account of Goal-Orientation
Chapter number 3
Book title
Methodology, Metaphysics and the History of Science
Published by
Springer Netherlands, January 1984
DOI 10.1007/978-94-009-6331-3_3
Book ISBNs
978-9-40-096333-7, 978-9-40-096331-3
Authors

Professor Roger J. Faber, Roger J. Faber

Editors

Robert S. Cohen, Marx W. Wartofsky

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