Title | Form and Strategy in Science [electronic resource] : Studies Dedicated to Joseph Henry Woodger on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday / edited by John R. Gregg, F. T. C. Harris |
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Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1964 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3603-0 |
Descript | VII, 476 p. online resource |
Joseph Henry Woodger, Curriculum Vitae -- Editorsโ 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 -- Aristotleโs 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