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Foundational Problems in the Special Sciences

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Genesis and Observership
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    Chapter 2 The Methodology of Physics and Topology
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    Chapter 3 Axiomatics and the Search for the Foundations of Physics
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    Chapter 4 What is Philosophically Interesting About Quantum Mechanics?
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    Chapter 5 Completeness and Realism in Quantum Mechanics
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    Chapter 6 The Ontological Status of Species as Evolutionary Units
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    Chapter 7 Theories and Observations of Developmental Biology
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    Chapter 8 Organic Determinism and Teleology in Biological Research
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    Chapter 9 Explicit and Implicit Semantic Content of The Genetic Information
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    Chapter 10 Consciousness and the Brain
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    Chapter 11 Causality and Action
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    Chapter 12 Methodological Aspects of Analysis of Activity
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    Chapter 13 A Survey of Contemporary Learning Theories
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    Chapter 14 Conditioning as the Perception of Causal Relations
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    Chapter 15 Learnable Functions
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    Chapter 16 The Methodology of Social Knowledge and the Problem of the Integration of the Sciences
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    Chapter 17 Welfare Inequalities and Rawlsian Axiomatics
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    Chapter 18 Nonlinear Social Welfare Functions: A Rejoinder to Professor Sen
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    Chapter 19 Non-Linear Social Welfare Functions: A Reply to Professor Harsanyi
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    Chapter 20 The Measurement of Social Inequality
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    Chapter 21 Advances in Understanding Rational Behavior
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    Chapter 22 Towards a Unified Decision Theory: A Non-Bayesian Approach
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    Chapter 23 On the Rationale of the Bayesian Approach: Comments on Professor Watkins’s Paper
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    Chapter 24 The Dual Function of Rationality
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Chapter title
Welfare Inequalities and Rawlsian Axiomatics
Chapter number 17
Book title
Foundational Problems in the Special Sciences
Published by
Springer, Dordrecht, January 1977
DOI 10.1007/978-94-010-1141-9_17
Book ISBNs
978-9-40-101143-3, 978-9-40-101141-9
Authors

Amartya Sen

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Unknown 3 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 33%
Student > Bachelor 1 33%
Student > Postgraduate 1 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Philosophy 3 100%