:Re-Engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings: Piecewise Approximations to Reality

By M. Bradie. 2008

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Explanation in Biology: Reduction, Pluralism, and Explanatory Aims (2011, unknown): “away from certain aspects of natural phenomena (Weisberg 2007; Wimsatt 2007).”
Teaching the nature of science through scientific errors (2012, background): “With no independent access to reality, however, all knowledge claims must negotiate the challenges of evidence, demonstration, and persuasion through such strategies as intervention or robustness of data (Hacking, 1984; Wimsatt, 2007, Chap.”
Evolutionary Psychology as Maladapted Psychology (2007, background): “Moreover, there are dependencies in ontogeny that entail that characters cannot be readily decoupled (see, e.g., Schank and Wimsatt 1988; Wimsatt and Schank 1988; Wimsatt 2007): some structures cannot develop without precursors, and so even if those precursors have no later function, they can be ret”