The world is complex, but acknowledging its complexity requires an appreciation for the many roles context plays in shaping natural phenomena. In "Unsimple Truths, "Sandra 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 the kinds of knowledge that many contemporary sciences are providing about the world. She advocates, instead, for a new understanding that represents the rich, variegated, interdependent fabric of many levels and...
The world is complex, but acknowledging its complexity requires an appreciation for the many roles context plays in shaping natural phenomena. In "...
Natural and social sciences seem very often, though usually only implicitly, to hedge their laws by ceteris paribus clauses - a practice which is philosophically very hard to understand because such clauses seem to render the laws trivial and unfalsifiable. After early worries the issue is vigorously discussed in the philosophy of science and the philosophy of mind since ca. 15 years. This volume collects the most prominent philosophers of science in the field and presents a lively, controversial, but well-integrated, highly original and up-to-date discussion of the...
Natural and social sciences seem very often, though usually only implicitly, to hedge their laws by ceteris paribus clauses - a pract...
Eine neue Herausforderung fr die Wissenschaft: Die Welt ist komplex, also sollten es auch unsere Vorstellungen von ihr sein. Viele Disziplinen der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften haben sich lange an diese Maxime gehalten. Die Naturwissenschaften aber haben traditionell nach einfachen, universalen und zeitlosen Gesetzen gesucht. Damit wollten sie dieschwirre Verwirrung(blooming, buzzing confusion, William James) erklren, die die ungeschulten Sinne dem Geist prsentieren. Aber dieses Unternehmen ist gescheitert. Sandra Mitchell zeigt, da uns die Komplexitt der lebigen Welt dazu zwingt, unsere...
Eine neue Herausforderung fr die Wissenschaft: Die Welt ist komplex, also sollten es auch unsere Vorstellungen von ihr sein. Viele Disziplinen der Gei...
