Scientific pluralism

Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Other Authors: Longino, Helen E.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, c2006.
Series:Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 19
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10206202
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the pluralist stance / Stephen H. Kellert, Helen E. Longino, and C. Kenneth Waters
  • The many unities of science : politics, semantics, and ontology / Alan W. Richardson
  • Perspectival pluralism / Ronald N. Giere
  • Plurality and complementarity in quantum dynamics / Michael Dickson
  • Pluralism and the foundations of mathematics / Geoffrey Hellman and John L. Bell
  • Pluralisms in economics / Esther-Mirjam Sent
  • Theoretical pluralism and the scientific study of behavior / Helen E. Longino
  • A new/old (pluralist) resolution of the mind-body problem / C. Wade Savage
  • Explanations of the evolution of sex : a plurality of local mechanisms / Carla Fehr
  • A pluralist interpretation of gene-centered biology / C. Kenneth Waters
  • Disciplinary pluralism for science studies / Stephen H. Kellert.