Interweaving categories: Styles, paradigms, and models

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 628-639

  Winther, Rasmus Grønfeldt ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Methodology; Models; Paradigms; Pluralism; Realism; Realization; Scientific practice; Styles of scientific research; Systematics; Taxonomy; Trading zone

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870250065     PISSN: 00393681     EISSN: 18792510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2012.07.005     Document Type: Article

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