New insights into the nature of science:
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William Bechtel
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Article
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1988
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Springer Netherlands
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English
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Having tried myself on a couple occasions to employ an evolutionary perspective to understand scientific development (Bechtel, 1984, 1987), became rather skeptical of its utility. My skepticism was not due to the objections of the critics of evolutionary epistemology to the effect that the differenc