Teleology Revisited and Other Essays in the Philosophy and History of Science / / Ernest Nagel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Nagel, Ernest,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1979]; ©1979
• Year of Publication: 1979
• Language: English
• Series: The John Dewey Essays in Philosophy
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (354 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Acknowledgments --; Contents --; Introduction --; 1. Modern Science in Philosophical Perspective --; 2. Theory and Observation --; 3. Some Reflections on the Use of Language in the Natural Sciences --; 4. The Quest for Uncertainty --; 5. Philosophical Depreciations of Scientific Method --; 6. Issues in the Logic of Reductive Explanations --; 7. Carnap’s Theory of Induction --; 8. “Impossible Numbers”: A Chapter in the History of Modern Logic --; 9. The Formation of Modern Conceptions of Formal Logic in the Development of Geometry --; 10. Determinism and Development --; 11. Some Notes on Determinism --; 12. Teleology Revisited
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231891714; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/nage93038
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Ernest Nagel.

Consists of the third of the John Dewey lectures delivered at Columbia University under the department of Philosophy and eleven additional essays. Focuses on the logic of scientific inquiry and some of its limitations.