Exceeding our grasp : science, history, and the problem of unconceived alternatives / P. Kyle Stanford.
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TextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.Description: xiv, 234 p. ; 25 cmISBN: - 0195174089 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780195174083
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- Q175.32.I54 S73 2006
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-221) and index.
Realism, pessimism, and underdetermination -- Chasing Duhem: the problem of unconceived alternatives -- Darwin and pangenesis: the search for the material basis of generation and heredity -- Galton and the stirp theory -- August Weismann's theory of the germ-plasm -- History revisited: Pyrrhic victories for scientific realism -- Selective confirmation and the historical record: "another such victory over the Romans"? -- Science without realism?
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