Sandra D. Mitchell

'Unsimple Truths'

Bog | Engelsk

In "Unsimple Truths", Sandra D. Mitchell argues that the long-standing scientific and philosophical deference to reductive explanations founded on simple universal laws, linear causal models, and predict-and-act strategies fails to accommodate t

'Biological Complexity and Integrative Pluralism'

Bog | Engelsk

This fine collection of essays by a leading philosopher of science presents a defence of integrative pluralism as the best description for the complexity of scientific inquiry today. The tendency of some scientists to unify science by reducing all theorie