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REASON AND RATIONALITY IN NATURAL SCIENCE

A Group of Essays
Nicholas Rescher

LANHAM NEW YORK LONDON

CONTENTS
PREFACE A. SYSTEMATIC ESSAYS 1. Jay F. Rosenberg / Science and the Epistemic Authority of Logical Analysis .1 2. Robert Brandom / Varieties of Understanding 27 3. Rom Harref / Theory Families, Plausibility, and the Defense of Modest Realism 53 4. Jiirgen Mittelstrass / Scientific Rationality and Its Reconstruction 83 5. William Lycan / Conservatism and the DataBase 103 B. HISTORICAL ESSAYS 6. Philip Kitcher / Darwin's Achievement 127 7. Robert E. Butts / 'A Purely Scientific Temper': Victorian Expressions of the Ideal of an Autonomous Science .... 191 Contributors Name Index 215 217

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