Autor: William C. Wimsatt

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William C. Wimsatt is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. He was awarded the 2013 David L. Hull Prize by the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology.




6 Ebooks de William C. Wimsatt

Linnda R. Caporael & James R. Griesemer: Developing Scaffolds in Evolution, Culture, and Cognition
Empirical and philosophical perspectives on scaffolding that highlight the role of temporal and temporary resources in development across concepts of culture, cognition, and evolution."Scaffoldi …
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€172.85
Manfred D. Laubichler & Jane Maienschein: From Embryology to Evo-Devo
Historians, philosophers, sociologists, and biologists explore the history of the idea that embryological development and evolution are linked.Although we now know that ontogeny (individual developme …
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€89.59
Daniel S. Brooks & James DiFrisco: Levels of Organization in the Biological Sciences
Scientific philosophers examine the nature and significance of levels of organization, a core structural principle in the biological sciences.This volume examines the idea of levels of organization a …
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€154.40
William C. Wimsatt: Re-Engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings
Analytic philosophers once pantomimed physics: they tried to understand the world by breaking it down into the smallest possible bits. Thinkers from the Darwinian sciences now pose alternatives to th …
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€102.51