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11Facetten des Menschlichen: Reflexionen Zum Wesen des Humanen Und der PersonTranscript Verlag. 2007.
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6Things, stuffs, and coincidence. A non-ontological point of viewHyle 7 (1). 2001.In this article the problem of the so-called 'coinciding objects', i.e. the question whether a substantially homogeneous thing is something ontologically different from the corresponding 'piece of stuff' it is made of or not, is examined from a pragmatical and language-analytical point of view. Instead of recurring to ontological assertions, I propose to regard 'stuffs' or 'substances' as a mode of speaking about things that fulfil the condition of being homogeneous in respect to a certain kind …Read more
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6Im Grunde der Seele. Anmerkungen zum Gegenstandbereich der PsychologieIn Facetten des Menschlichen: Reflexionen Zum Wesen des Humanen Und der Person, Transcript Verlag. pp. 119-136. 2007.
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8Critical Rationalism in the Test Tube?Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 28 (2). 1997.Popper's critical rationalism is widely accepted under scientists and philosophers of science as a proper method for the reconstruction of scientific theories. On occasion of the application of the Popperian ideas for the reconstruction of chemistry by Akeroyd the flaws of the critical rationalist approach are criticised and a methodical alternative is proposed, involving the operational definition of scientific terms.
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