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Mark Wilson aims to reconnect analytic philosophy with the evolving practicalities within science from which many of its grander concerns originally sprang. He offers an alternative history of how the subject might have developed had the insights of its philosopher/scientist forebears not been cast aside in the vain pursuit of "ersatz rigor".

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1: Ersatz Rigor 2: Prospectus 3: Inductive Warrant Appendix: Historical Complexities 4: The Mystery of Physics 101 Appendix: Hertz' Critique of the Third Law 5: Multiscalar Architectures Appendix: Further Comments on Homogenization 6: Diversity in "Cause" 7: Dreams of a Final Theory T 8: Linguistic Scaffolding and Scientific Realism 9: Truth in a Multiscalar Landscape

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      Publisher: Oxford University Press
      Publication Date: 28/12/2021
      ISBN13: 9780192896469, 978-0192896469
      ISBN10: 0192896466

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Mark Wilson aims to reconnect analytic philosophy with the evolving practicalities within science from which many of its grander concerns originally sprang. He offers an alternative history of how the subject might have developed had the insights of its philosopher/scientist forebears not been cast aside in the vain pursuit of "ersatz rigor".

      Table of Contents
      1: Ersatz Rigor 2: Prospectus 3: Inductive Warrant Appendix: Historical Complexities 4: The Mystery of Physics 101 Appendix: Hertz' Critique of the Third Law 5: Multiscalar Architectures Appendix: Further Comments on Homogenization 6: Diversity in "Cause" 7: Dreams of a Final Theory T 8: Linguistic Scaffolding and Scientific Realism 9: Truth in a Multiscalar Landscape

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