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6The functional architecture of adaptive cognitive systems with limited capacitySemiotica 68 (3-4): 191-244. 1988.
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20John Locke in the German Enlightenment: an InterpretationJournal of the History of Ideas 36 (3): 431. 1975.A favorite assumption of anglo-American scholarship is that locke's influence "pervaded the eighteenth century with an almost scriptural authority." examining the philosophy of the german enlightenment, This essay disputes the exaggerated importance ascribed to locke in the eighteenth century. Locke's influence was always limited by native traditions inimical to his thought. His empiricism could not compete with the leibniz-Wolff system in which all german philosophers, Including the lockean sym…Read more
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12Das Wagnis des Neuen: Kontexte und Restriktionen der Wissenschaft: Festschrift für Klaus Fischer zum 60. Geburtstag (edited book)Traugott Bautz. 2009.
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14Ist die Vernunft am Ende? Kritische Bemerkungen zu Feyerabends Analyse innovativer Prozesse in der WissenschaftZeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 32 (3). 1978.
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88Detecting Supply Chain Innovation Potential for Sustainable DevelopmentJournal of Business Ethics 97 (3). 2010.In a world of limited resources, it could be argued that companies that aspire to be good corporate citizens need to focus on making best use of resources. User value and environmental harm are created in supply chains and it could therefore be argued that company business ethics should be extended from the company to the entire value chain from the first supplier to the last customer. Starting with a delineation of the linkages between business ethics, corporate sustainability, and the stakehol…Read more
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19Rationale heuristikJournal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 14 (2): 234-272. 1983.As a logical consequence of recent developments in the philosophy of science the concept of rationality has lost much of its impact. It seems that the rationality of methodological decisions in science can be defined no longer in an absolute sense but only in relation to a given context and in hindsight. This failure of methodology in assessing once and for all the rights and wrongs of scientific decisions is taken as a clue for reanalyzing the strategical intervention-points of methodological n…Read more
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39Die wissenschaftstheorie galileis — oder: Contra Feyerabend (review)Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 23 (1). 1992.Galileo's Philosophy of Science - or: Contra Feyerabend. In analyzing Galileo's methodology, philosophers of science were using, misusing, and abusing his ideas rather unashamedly to suit their own purposes. Like so many others before him, Paul Feyerabend had come to the conclusion that his methodological ideas might gain momentum by demonstrating their compatibility with those of Galileo. The reinterpretation of Galileo as a true, though disguised, anarchist, was considered by Feyerabend as the…Read more
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39Braucht die wissenschaft eine theorie?Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 26 (2). 1995.Can Science do without a Theory? The main questions that are discussed are as follows: 1) Do we have - as a matter of fact - a general philosophy of science which is comprehensive and powerful enough to present a solution to all the relevant methodological and metatheoretical problems arising within the sciences? 2) Do scientists feel a need for such a general metatheoretical tool? 3) In the probable case of a negative answer to both questions posed above: what, if any, is the legitimate status …Read more
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