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 …
WC Wimsatt - Canadian Journal of Philosophy Supplementary …, 1994 - cambridge.org
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 …
R Brandon - PSA: Proceedings of the biennial meeting of the …, 1982 - cambridge.org
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 …
JR Griesemer - Idealization XII: Correcting the model, 2005 - brill.com
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 …
R Dawkins - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1994 - cambridge.org
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) …