Form and Strategy in Science: Studies Dedicated to Joseph Henry Woodger on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9401036047 ISBN 13: 9789401036047

Verlag: Springer, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

Joseph Henry Woodger, Curriculum Vitae.- Editors' Note.- Foreword.- I / Philosophy of Science.- Metaphysical Presuppositions and the Description of Biological Systems.- Speculations and Theories.- On Simple Theories of a Complex World.- The Devious Roads of Science.- Complexity And Organization.- The Relationship Between Formalized Languages And Natural Languages.- A Survey of Formal Semantics.- Analyticity Versus Fuzziness.- Toward a Logic of in Tensions.- II / Logical Analysis of Theory Structure.- Creative and Non-Creative Definitions in the Calculus of probability.- Algebraic Simplification of Redundant Sequential Circuits.- Aristotle's Syllogistic and its Extensions.- III / Models in Science.- A Representation of Animal Growth.- Analogies in Biology.- Probability Models and Thought and Learning Processes.- Models, Mathematics and Metaphors.- The Game-Theoretical Approach to Organization Theory.- Design by Natural Selection.- IV / Analytic Biology.- On The Concept of Genotype.- Gentical Semantics and Evolutionary Theory.- Biological Field Phenomena: Facts and Concepts.- Animal Organization as a Problem in Cell Form.- Morphological Correspondence and the Concept of Homology.- On Category Overlapping in Taxonomy.- An Analysis of Some Taxonomic Concepts.- Life Cycles as Hierarchical Relations.- Bibliographical Appendix.- Publications by Joseph Henry Woodger.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Springer
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 9401036047
• ISBN 13: 9789401036047
• Einband: Paperback
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 488
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