In "Unsimple Truths", Sandra D. Mitchell argues that the
long-standing scientific and philosophical deference to reductive
explanations founded on simple universal laws, linear causal
models, and predict-and-act strategies fails to accommodate the
kinds of knowledge that many contemporary sciences are providing
about the world. She advocates, instead, for a new understanding
that represents the rich, variegated, interdependent fabric of many
levels and kinds of explanation that are integrated with one
another to ground effective prediction and action. Mitchell draws
from diverse fields including psychiatry, social insect biology,
and studies of climate change to defend "integrative pluralism" - a
theory of scientific practices that makes sense of how many natural
and social sciences represent the multilevel, multicomponent,
dynamic structures they study. Ultimately "Unsimple Truths" argues
that the very idea of what should count as legitimate science
itself should change.
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