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Michael Bradie
Researcher at Bowling Green State University
Publications - 51
Citations - 559
Michael Bradie is an academic researcher from Bowling Green State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Philosophy of biology & Evolutionary epistemology. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 51 publications receiving 532 citations.
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Assessing evolutionary epistemology
TL;DR: There are two interrelated but distinct programs which go by the name "evolutionary epistemology" as mentioned in this paper, one of which attempts to account for the characteristics of cognitive mechanisms in animals and humans by a straightforward extension of the biological theory of evolution to those aspects or traits of animals which are the biological substrates of cognitive activity.
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The Causal Theory of Perception
TL;DR: In this article, L'A. recuse les argumentations par lesquelles d'autres ont appuye leur reponse negative a cette question.
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Explanation as Metaphorical Redescription
TL;DR: The authors argue for the centrality of metaphors in scientific explanations and draw on some ideas from M. Black (1955, 1993), M. Hesse (1966), and T. S. Kuhn (1973) to sketch out a model of scientific explanation as metaphorical re-description.