Book ID: CBB000641602

Exceeding Our Grasp: Science, History, and the Problem of Unconceived Alternatives (2006)

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Stanford, P. Kyle (Author)


Oxford University Press


Publication Date: 2006
Physical Details: xiv + 234 pp.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Presents an anti-realist interpretation of science based on case studies of 19th-century scientific theories of heredity.


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Review Brigandt, Ingo (2007) Review of "Exceeding Our Grasp: Science, History, and the Problem of Unconceived Alternatives". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 435). unapi

Review Vicedo, Marga (2007) Review of "Exceeding Our Grasp: Science, History, and the Problem of Unconceived Alternatives". British Journal for the History of Science (p. 619). unapi

Review Lewens, Tim (2006) Review of "Exceeding Our Grasp: Science, History, and the Problem of Unconceived Alternatives". Science. unapi

Review Hoyningen-Huene, Paul (2007) Review of "Exceeding Our Grasp: Science, History, and the Problem of Unconceived Alternatives". History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences (p. 93). unapi

Review Harker, David (2008) Review of "Exceeding Our Grasp: Science, History, and the Problem of Unconceived Alternatives". Philosophy of Science (p. 251). unapi

Essay Review Saatsi, Juha (2009) Part of a review syposium: Grasping at Realist Straws. Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 355-362). unapi

Essay Review Psillos, Stathis (2009) Part of a review syposium: Grasping at Realist Straws. Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 363-370). unapi

Essay Review Winther, Rasmus Grønfeldt (2009) Part of a review syposium: Grasping at Realist Straws. Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 370-379). unapi

Essay Review Stanford, P. Kyle (2009) Author's Response to review syposium: Grasping at Realist Straws. Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 379-390). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Yakira, Elhanan
Popowski, H.
Ariew, Roger
Telkes-Klein, Eva
Brenner, Anastasios A.
Roux, Sophie
Journals
Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki
Indian Journal of History of Science
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Biological Theory
Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science
Publishers
Aracne
Honoré Champion
Springer
Oxford University Press
University of California, Santa Cruz
CSLI Publications
Concepts
Philosophers of science, modern
Philosophy of science
Philosophy
Historians of science, modern
Realism
Epistemology
People
Duhem, Pierre
Rubczyński, Witold
Meyerson, Émile
Vivekananda, Swami
Mill, John Stuart
Lewis, W. David
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
21st century
20th century, early
Medieval
20th century, late
Places
France
Europe
India
Great Britain
Germany
United States
Institutions
School of Milan
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