Reason and Rationality in Natural Science

By Nicholas Rescher

A collection of essays on fundamental issues regarding scientific knowledge. Contents: Systematic Essays: Science and the Epistemic Authority of Logical Analysis, Jay F. Rosenberg; Varieties of Understanding, Robert Brandom; Theory Families, Plausibility and the Defense of Modest Realism, Rom Harre; Scientific Rationality and Its Reconstruction, Jurgen Mittelstrass; Conservatism and the Data Base, William Lycan. Historical Essays: Darwin's Achievement, Philip Kitcher; "A Purely Scientific Temper" Victorian Expressions of the Ideal of an Autonomous Science, Robert E. Butts.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081914763X
• ISBN13: 9780819147639
• Release Date: July 1985
• Publisher: University Press Of America
• Length: 227 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.0"