Clifford Alan Hooker's Books

A Realistic Theory of Science

By: Clifford Alan Hooker

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This book presents a clear and critical view of the orthodox logical empiricist tradition, pointing the way to significant developments for the understanding of science both as research and as culture. It summarizes the present confused and highly polarized status of the orthodox philosophy of science. It exhibits clearly the fundamental metaphysical and global presuppositions and confusions that have led to this status. It provides a positive point of view from which progress can be made toward understanding science as research done by real scientists rather than science as exemplifying some prior epistemological program created by philosophers. And it leads directly to an understanding of science as a dynamic force within our society with consequences for the environment and public policy.

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SUNY Press

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0887063152

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9780887063152

Reason, Regulation, and Realism

Towards a Regulatory Systems Theory of Reason and Evolutionary Epistemology

By: Clifford Alan Hooker

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Reason, Regulation, and Realism

Towards a Regulatory Systems Theory of Reason and Evolutionary Epistemology

By: Clifford Alan Hooker

This book develops a new naturalist theory of reason and scientific knowledge from a synthesis of philosophy and the new sciences of complex adaptive systems. In particular, the theory of partially self-organizing regulatory systems is now emerging as central to all the life and social sciences, and this book shows how these ideas can be used to illuminate and satisfyingly reconstruct our basic philosophical concepts and principles. Evolutionary epistemology provides a unifying subject for the book. It is taken as proposing some important commonality between cognitive biological and cognitive epistemic processes. Here, that commonality is found by embedding both in a common model of complex adaptive system dynamics. New reconstructions are offered on the theories of Jean Piaget, Karl Popper, and Nicholas Rescher which show how their ideas are more deeply illuminated from this perspective in contrast to the formal rationalist interpretations standard among philosophers and scientists.

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450

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SUNY Press

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0791422615

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9780791422618

Environmental Crime

Enforcement, Policy, and Social Responsibility

By: Mary Clifford

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Environmental Crime

Enforcement, Policy, and Social Responsibility

By: Mary Clifford

Appendices include: Glossary, Important environmental activities, Criminal sanctions outlined in federal environmental legislation, environmental legal cases, environmental crimes investigations for law enforcement officers.

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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0834210096

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9780834210097

Texas Lawmen, 1900-1940

More of the Good and the Bad

By: Clifford R. Caldwell,Ron DeLord

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Texas Lawmen, 1900-1940

More of the Good and the Bad

By: Clifford R. Caldwell,Ron DeLord

Lawlessness in Texas did not end with the close of the cowboy era. It just evolved, swapping horses and pistols for cars and semiautomatics. From Patrolman "Newt" Stewart, killed by a group of servicemen in February 1900, to Whitesboro chief of police William Thomas "Will" Miller, run down by a vehicle in the line of duty in 1940, Ron DeLord and Cliff Caldwell present a comprehensive chronicle of the brave--and some not so brave--peace officers who laid down their lives in the service of the State of Texas in the first half of the twentieth century.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1625840772

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9781625840776

Book's by Clifford Alan Hooker

A Realistic Theory of Science

A Realistic Theory of Science

Reason, Regulation, and Realism

Reason, Regulation, and Realism

Environmental Crime

Environmental Crime

Texas Lawmen, 1900-1940

Texas Lawmen, 1900-1940

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