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Discovering Complexity: Decomposition and Localization as Strategies in Scientific Research
Metaphilosophy 26 (4):435-440 (1995)
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Book review of Bechtel and Richardson, Discovering Complexity (1993). Review suggests that one theme of the book -- that scientific reason is "constituted" in part by a cognitive strategy of finding complexity -- is not fully supported.Author's Profile
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