Re-Engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings: Piecewise Approximations to RealityAnalytic 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 this simplistic reductionism. |
Contents
Myths of LaPlacean Omniscience | 3 |
Normative Idealizations versus the Metabolism | 15 |
Toward a Philosophy for Limited Beings | 26 |
ProblemSolving Strategies for Complex Systems | 37 |
Heuristics and the Study of Human Behavior | 75 |
False Models as Means to Truer Theories | 94 |
Becomes Necessary | 133 |
Lewontins Evidence That There Isnt Any | 146 |
Levels | 193 |
A Functional Account | 241 |
Engineering an Evolutionary View of Science | 313 |
On the Softening of the Hard Sciences | 319 |
Appendix A Important Properties of Heuristics | 345 |
Glossary of Key Concepts and Assumptions | 353 |
A Panoply of LaPlacean | 361 |
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