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  • Reductive Explanation in the Biological Sciences

    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book develops a philosophical account that reveals the major characteristics that make an explanation in the life sciences reductive and distinguish them from non-reductive explanations. Understanding what reductive explanations are enables one to assess the conditions under which reductive explanations are adequate and thus enhances debates about explanatory reductionism. The account of ... Read more

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  • Explanation in the Special Sciences

    The Case of Biology and History

    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Biology and history are often viewed as closely related disciplines, with biology informed by history, especially in its task of charting our evolutionary past. Maximizing the opportunities for cross-fertilization in these two fields requires an accurate reckoning of their commonalities and differences—precisely what this volume sets out to achieve. Specially commissioned essays by a team of ... Read more

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    Shannon Marie Kaiser aka Alexis Book of a mother, exotic dancer, soldier, artist, for keeping my money, power and respect!What some con artists have tried to take but can't!Is a story about Shannon M. Kaiser aka Alexis life as an exotic dancer from Georgia to New Jersey! Shannon was raising her two daughters Alexandria & Landen Kaiser; and going to college and exotic dancing! Then some corrupt ... Read more

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  • Louisiana Women

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    Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times, volume 2, highlights the significant historical contributions of some of Louisiana’s most noteworthy and also overlooked women from the eighteenth century to the present. This volume underscores the cultural, social, and political distinctiveness of the state as well as showcases the actions and activities of women who greatly affected the history of ... Read more

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  • The Science of Language

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    Noam Chomsky is one of the most influential thinkers of our time, yet his views are often misunderstood. In this previously unpublished series of interviews, Chomsky discusses his iconoclastic and important ideas concerning language, human nature and politics. In dialogue with James McGilvray, Professor of Philosophy at McGill University, Chomsky takes up a wide variety of topics – the nature of ... Read more

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  • Mind in Life

    Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind

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    How is life related to the mind? The question has long confounded philosophers and scientists, and it is this so-called explanatory gap between biological life and consciousness that Evan Thompson explores in Mind in Life.Thompson draws upon sources as diverse as molecular biology, evolutionary theory, artificial life, complex systems theory, neuroscience, psychology, Continental Phenomenology, ... Read more

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  • Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection

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  • Understanding Perspectivism

    Scientific Challenges and Methodological Prospects

    Series series Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science
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  • The Cognitive Science of Science

    Explanation, Discovery, and Conceptual Change

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    Series series Science and Cultural Theory
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