Growing Explanations: Historical Perspectives on Recent Science

Author/Contributor(s):	Wise, M Norton
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Date:	11/24/2004
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

This collection addresses a post-WWII shift in the hierarchy of scientific explanations, where the highest goal moves from reductionism towards some understanding of how elementary objects get built up, or "grown up," into complex, objects whose