Reason and rationality in natural science
Subtitle: a group of essays
By: edited by Nicholas Rescher.
Contributors: Rescher, Nicholas.
Series: CPS publications in philosophy of science
Publisher: University Press of America; Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
Published: 1985
Place of publication: Lanham, MD; Pittsburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
Subjects: Science -- Philosophy.; Reason.; Rationalism.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of contents: title: Science and the epistemic authority of logical analysis / Jay F. Rosenberg; title: Varieties of understanding / Robert Brandom; title: Theory families, plausibility, and the defense of modest realism / Rom Harré; title: Scientific rationality and its reconstruction / Jürgen Mittelstrass; title: Conservation and the data base / William Lycan; title: Darwin's achievement / Philip Kitcher; title: A purley scientific temper' : Victorian expressions of the ideal of an autonomous science / Robert E. Butts.