An excellent piece of work...definitely cutting edge, clearly written, significant and original. It will become the touchstone for further work in this area.

- Alex Rosenberg, Duke University,

This is solid scholarship: original, intellectually topical, well-researched, and well-written . . . excellent.

- D. Wade Hands, University of Puget Sound,

Individualism and the Unity of Science is an important book for anyone concerned with issues of reduction and explanation in the sciences as well as for those concerned with individualism in the social sciences, especially because it brings together some of the strongest empirical evidence yet marshalled against reductionism and individualism.

- Steve Clark, La Trobe University, Australasian Journal of Philosophy

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This book is a gem. . . . well organized, clearly argued, and deeply provocative. Highly recommended for all collections in the philosophy of science.

- L. C. Archie, Lander University, CHOICE

In this original and important book, Harold Kincaid defends a view of the special sciences—all sciences outside physics—as autonomous and nonreducible. He argues that the biological and social sciences provide explanations that cannot be captured by explanations at the level of their constituent parts, and yet that this does not commit us to mysterious, nonphysical entitites like vital forces or group minds. A look at real scientific practice shows that the many different sciences can be unified in a way that leaves them each an autonomous explanatory role. This book will be of great interest to philosophers of science and social scientists.
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ISBN
9780847686636
Publisert
1997-09-04
Utgiver
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Vekt
259 gr
Høyde
227 mm
Bredde
148 mm
Dybde
12 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
172

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Biografisk notat

Harold Kincaid is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is the author of Philosophical Foundations of the Social Sciences: Analyzing Controversies in Social Research (Cambridge University Press).