Growing Explanations: Historical Perspectives on Recent Science

ISBN-13: 9780822333074 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 360 str.

M. Norton Wise; Barbara Herrnstein Smith; E. Roy Weintraub

Opis

This collection addresses a post-WWII shift in the hierarchy of scientific explanations, where the highest goal moves from reductionism towards some understanding of how elementary objects get built up, or "grown up," into complex, objects whose