Taking the Naturalistic Turn, Or How Real Philosophy of Science Is Done

In this innovative volume, leading philosophers of biology candidly and informally debate the limitations of this tradition and the advantages of the 'naturalistic turn'--the idea that matters of fact are as relevant to philosophical theory as they are to science.

About the author

Werner Callebaut is associate professor of philosophy in the Department of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Communication of Limburgs Universitair Centrum, Belgium, and assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy of the Rijksuniversiteit Limburg, The Netherlands.

Product details

• Authors: William Bechtel, Werner Callebaut
• Assisted by: Werner Callebaut (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.1993
• EAN: 9780226091877
• ISBN: 978-0-226-09187-7
• No. of pages: 576
• Dimensions: 186 mm x 243 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 862 g
• Series: Science & Its Conceptual Foundations S.; Science & Its Conceptual Found; Science & Its Conceptual Foundations S.; Science & its Conceptual Foundations Series SCF (CHUP); Science & its Conceptual Foundations Series SCF; Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)