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Science 18 July 2008:
Vol. 321. no. 5887, p. 344
DOI: 10.1126/science.1156895
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PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE:
Addressing Complexity

Kim Sterelny

Re-Engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings
Piecewise Approximations to Reality
by William C. Wimsatt
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2007. 468 pp. $49.95, £32.95, €37.50. ISBN 9780674015456.
Although the title may offer little clue, these essays on the philosophy of science are particularly relevant to considerations of how to think about something as messy and multi-leveled as biology.
The reviewer is in the Philosophy Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, and the Department of Philosophy, Victoria University of Wellington, Kelburn Parade, Wellington 6140, New Zealand. E-mail: kim.sterelny.vuw.ac.nz

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