Author | Wartofsky, Marx W. author |
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Title | Models [electronic resource] : Representation and the Scientific Understanding / by Marx W. Wartofsky |
Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1979 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9357-0 |
Descript | XXVI, 398 p. online resource |
1. The Model Muddle: Proposals for an Immodest Realism (1966) -- 2. Reduction, Explanation and Ontology (1962) -- 3. Models, Metaphysics and the Vagaries of Empiricism (1965) -- 4. Metaphysics as Heuristic for Science (1965) -- 5. Matter, Action and Interaction (1973) -- 6. Towards a Critical Materialism (1971) -- 7. The Relation Between Philosophy of Science and History of Science (1977) -- 8. Telos and Technique: Models as Modes of Action (1968) -- 9. From Praxis to Logos: Genetic Epistemology and Physics (1971) -- 10. Pictures, Representation, and the Understanding (1972) -- 11. Perception, Representation, and the Forms of Action: Towards an Historical Epistemology (1973) -- 12. Rules and Representation: The Virtues of Constancy and Fidelity Put in Perspective (1978) -- 13. Action and Passion: Spinozaโs Construction of a Scientific Psychology (1973) -- 14. Nature, Number and Individuals: Motive and Method in Spinozaโs Philosophy (1978) -- 15. Humeโs Concept of Identity and the Principium Individuationis (1961) -- 16. Diderot and the Development of Materialist Monism (1953) -- 17. Art and Technology: Conflicting Models of Education? The Uses of a Cultural Myth (1973) -- 18. Art as Humanizing Praxis (1976) -- Name Index