El "Alfabeto" y la "Gramática" de la Geología. Analogías y metáforas en la estrategia persuasiva de Lyell

Enfoques 20 (1-2):7-31 (2008)
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Con la publicación de Principios de Geología, Lyell se propuso mejorar la reputación de la Geología mediante una tregua con la religión y mediante la presentación del uniformitarianismo (término acuñado por Whewell, uno de sus críticos más respetados) como estrategia heurística. Luego de una breve e..

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Darwin filósofo.Ginnobili Santiago - 2021 - In López Orellana Rodrigo & Suárez-Ruíz Joaquín (eds.), Filosofía posdarwiniana. College Publications. pp. 85-122.

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Principles of Geology.Charles Lyell & G. L. Herrier Davies - 1994 - Annals of Science 51 (1):100.
Charles Lyell, Radical Actualism, and Theory.W. Faye Cannon - 1976 - British Journal for the History of Science 9 (2):104-120.

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