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D. Reidel, 1985. Hardcover. Ex-library, a touch of sunning to spine, o/wise good (no markings to clean and bright text). No dust jacket. Part of the Episteme series, no. 12. 274pp. ISBN 9027720983. . D. Reidel, 1985 ISBN 9027720983 9789027720986 [AU]
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D. Reidel 1985 Hardcover Very Good with No dust jacket as issued 9027720983. Inscription; text clean and tight; no dust jacket; Episteme 12; 0.85 x 9.56 x 6.48 Inches; 288 pages.
ISBN10: 9027720983, ISBN13: 9789027720986, [publisher: D. Reidel] Hardcover Inscription; text clean and tight; no dust jacket; Episteme 12; 0.85 x 9.56 x 6.48 Inches; 288 pages [Baldwin City, KS, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1985]
ISBN10: 9027720983, ISBN13: 9789027720986, [publisher: Springer Netherlands] Hardcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Were one to characterize the aims of this book ambitiously, it could be said to sketch the philosophical foundations or underpinnings of the scientific world view or, better, of the scientific conception of the world. In any case, it develops a comprehensive philosophical view, one which takes science seri ously as the best method for getting to know the ontological aspects of the world. This view is a kind of scientific realism - causal internal realism, as it is dubbed in the book. This brand of realism is 'tough' in matters of ontology but 'soft' in matters of semantics and epistemology. An ancestor of the book was published in Finnish under the title Tiede, toiminta ja todellisuus (Gaudeamus, 1983). That book is a shortish undergraduate-level monograph. However, as some research-level chapters have been added, the present book is perhaps best regarded as suited for more advanced readers. I completed the book while my stay at the University of Wisconsin in Madison as a Visiting Professor under the Exchange Program between the Universities of Wisconsin and Helsinki. I gratefully acknowledge this support. I also wish to thank Juhani Saalo and Martti Kuokkanen for comments on the manuscript and for editorial help. Dr Matti Sintonen translated the Finnish ancestor of this book into English, to be used as a parti ...
ISBN10: 9027720983, ISBN13: 9789027720986, [publisher: Springer Netherlands] Hardcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Were one to characterize the aims of this book ambitiously, it could be said to sketch the philosophical foundations or underpinnings of the scientific world view or, better, of the scientific conception of the world. In any case, it develops a comprehensive philosophical view, one which takes science seri ously as the best method for getting to know the ontological aspects of the world. This view is a kind of scientific realism - causal internal realism, as it is dubbed in the book. This brand of realism is 'tough' in matters of ontology but 'soft' in matters of semantics and epistemology. An ancestor of the book was published in Finnish under the title Tiede, toiminta ja todellisuus (Gaudeamus, 1983). That book is a shortish undergraduate-level monograph. However, as some research-level chapters have been added, the present book is perhaps best regarded as suited for more advanced readers. I completed the book while my stay at the University of Wisconsin in Madison as a Visiting Professor under the Exchange Program between the Universities of Wisconsin and Helsinki. I gratefully acknowledge this support. I also wish to thank Juhani Saalo and Martti Kuokkanen for comments on the manuscript and for editorial help. Dr Matti Sintonen translated the Finnish ancestor of this book into English, to be used as a parti ...
Hardback. New. Were one to characterize the aims of this book ambitiously, it could be said to sketch the philosophical foundations or underpinnings of the scientific world view or, better, of the scientific conception of the world. This view is a kind of scientific realism - causal internal realism, as it is dubbed in the book. ISBN 9027720983 9789027720986 [GB]
ISBN10: 9027720983, ISBN13: 9789027720986, [publisher: Springer] Hardcover Very Good [Redhill, SURRE, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1985]
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