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Teleology revisited and other essays in the philosophy and history of science
- Title
- Teleology revisited and other essays in the philosophy and history of science / Ernest Nagel.
- Author
- Nagel, Ernest, 1901-1985.
- Publication
- New York : Columbia University Press, 1979.
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Details
- Description
- viii, 352 pages; 24 cm
- Series Statement
- The John Dewey essays in philosophy ; no. 3
- Uniform Title
- John Dewey essays in philosophy ; no. 3.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Essays.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Modern science in philosophical perspective -- Theory and observation -- Some reflections on the use of language in the natural sciences -- Quest for uncertainty -- Philosophical depreciations of scientific method -- Issues in the logic of reductive explanations -- Carnap's theory of induction -- "Impossible numbers": a chapter in the history of modern logic -- Formation of modern conceptions of formal logic in the development of geometry -- Determinism and development -- Some notes on determinism -- Teleology revisited: goal-directed processes in biology -- Teleology revisited: functional explanations in biology.
- ISBN
- 0231045042
- 9780231045049
- 0231045050
- 9780231045056
- LCCN
- 78014037
- OCLC
- ocm04495995
- 4495995
- SCSB-9428383
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library