In both biology and the human sciences, social groups are sometimes treated as adaptive
units whose organization cannot be reduced to individual interactions. This group-level view …

Abstract In this book, Earl Mac Cormac presents an original and unified cognitive theory of
metaphor using philosophical arguments which draw upon evidence from psychological …

Willard van Orman Quine once said that he had a preference for a desert ontology. This was
in an earlier day when concerns with logical structure and ontological simplicity reigned …

Quantum field theory (QFT) combines quantum mechanics with Einstein's special theory of
relativity and underlies elementary particle physics. This book presents a philosophical …

It is a mistake to suppose that the units of selection controversy in biology centers around a
single question. In this paper I will take Wimsatt's recent work (1980 and 1981) as defining …

One of the major philosophical problems in physical sciences is what criteria should
determine how scientific theories are selected and justified in practice and whether, in …

Ich traf Paul Hoyningen das erste Mal Mitte August 1984, als er in Boston an kam, um
einJahr am Massachusetts Institute of Technology zu verbringen. Wir wa ren beide etwas …

This essay is about the nature of Darwinian evolutionary theory and strategies for
generalizing it. In this section I sketch the main argument. In this essay I describe some of …

In both biology and the human sciences, social groups are sometimes treated as adaptive
units whose organization cannot be reduced to individual interactions. This group-level view …

É útil trabalhar com um modelo das práticas de pesquisa científica segundo o qual existem
três momentos-chave nos quais é preciso fazer escolhas, a saber, os momentos de:(i) …