Relations Between Sciences

Klappentext Professor Pantin examines the relations between the sciences and will appeal to both professional scientists and to philosophers of science. Zusammenfassung In this book! which was originally published in 1968! Professor Pantin examines the relations between the sciences. He considers why certain kinds of classification are especially acceptable to the human mind! and what are the forces! often unrecognised! which give the impulse to scientific research and influence its direction. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. The restricted and the unrestricted sciences; 2. The features of the natural world; 3. Living systems and natural selection; 4. The classification of objects and phenomena; 5. Methods in the unrestricted sciences; Summary; Appendix 1. Life and the conditions of existence (from Biology and Personality, edited by I. P. Ramsey, Oxford, Blackwell, 1965); Appendix 2. Learning, world-models and pre-adaptation (reprinted from Animal Behaviour, supplement I, 1965); Appendix 3. Organism and environment (paper read in 1965 at a meeting of the Study Group on 'Foundations of Cultural Unity', Bowdoin College, USA); Notes and references; Index.

Zusammenfassung
In this book, which was originally published in 1968, Professor Pantin examines the relations between the sciences. He considers why certain kinds of classification are especially acceptable to the human mind, and what are the forces, often unrecognised, which give the impulse to scientific research and influence its direction.

Inhalt

Preface; 1. The restricted and the unrestricted sciences; 2. The features of the natural world; 3. Living systems and natural selection; 4. The classification of objects and phenomena; 5. Methods in the unrestricted sciences; Summary; Appendix 1. Life and the conditions of existence (from Biology and Personality, edited by I. P. Ramsey, Oxford, Blackwell, 1965); Appendix 2. Learning, world-models and pre-adaptation (reprinted from Animal Behaviour, supplement I, 1965); Appendix 3. Organism and environment (paper read in 1965 at a meeting of the Study Group on 'Foundations of Cultural Unity', Bowdoin College, USA); Notes and references; Index.