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" Foundational Problems in the Special Sciences Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, London, Ontario, Canada-1975. "
Butts, Robert E.
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774267
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b594261
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Butts, Robert E.
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Foundational Problems in the Special Sciences Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, London, Ontario, Canada-1975.\ Butts, Robert E.
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Springer Verlag, 2013
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9401011419
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: 9789401011419
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I/Foundations of The Physical Sciences.- Genesis and Observership.- The Methodology of Physics and Topology.- Axiomatics and the Search for the Foundations of Physics.- II/The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics.- What is Philosophically Interesting about Quantum Mechanics?.- Completeness and Realism in Quantum Mechanics.- III/Foundations of biology.- The Ontological Status of Species as Evolutionary Units.- Theories and Observations of Developmental Biology.- Organic Determinism and Teleology in Biological Research.- Explicit and Implicit Semantic Content of the Genetic Information.- IV/Foundations of Psychology.- Consciousness and the Brain.- Causality and Action.- Methodological Aspects of Analysis of Activity.- V/The Status of Learning Theories.- A Survey of Contemporary Learning Theories.- Conditioning as the Perception of Causal Relations.- Leanable Functions.- VI/Foundations of The Social Sciences.- The Methodology of Social Knowledge and the Problem of the Integration of the Sciences.- VII/Justice and Social Change.- Welfare Inequalities and Rawlsian Axiomatics.- Nonlinear Social Welfare Functions: A Rejoinder to Prof. Sen.- Non Linear Social Welfare Functions: A Reply to Prof. Harsanyi.- The Measurement of Social Inequality.- VIII/Rationality in Social Sciences.- Advances in Understanding Rational Behavior.- Towards a Unified Decision Theory: A Non-Bayesian Approach.- On the Rationale of the Bayesian Approach: Comments on Prof. Watkins's Paper.- The Dual Function of Rationality.- Index of Names.
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B67.B888 2013
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Butts, Robert E.
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Hintikka, Jaakko
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