Re Engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings

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Re Engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings

Author	: William C. Wimsatt
File Size	: 53,7 Mb
Publisher	: Harvard University Press
Language	: English
Release Date	: 30 June 2007
ISBN	: 0674015452
Pages	: 480 pages

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Analytic philosophers once pantomimed physics, trying to understand the world by breaking it down. Thinkers from the Darwinian sciences now pose alternatives to such reductionism. Wimsatt argues that today’s scientists seek to atomize phenomena only to understand how entities, events, and processes articulate at different levels.

Re Engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings by William C. Wimsatt

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