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William C. Wimsatt

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	Re-Engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings: Piecewise Approximations to Reality 4.07 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From Embryology to Evo-Devo: A History of Developmental Evolution (Dibner Institute Studies in the History of Science and Technology) by Manfred D. Laubichler (Editor), Jane Maienschein (Editor), Frederick B. Churchill (Contributor) 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2007 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Developing Scaffolds in Evolution, Culture, and Cognition by Linnda R. Caporael (Editor), James R. Griesemer (Editor), William C. Wimsatt (Editor) 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Levels of Organization in the Biological Sciences (Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology) by Daniel S. Brooks (Editor), James Difrisco (Editor), William C. Wimsatt (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by William C. Wimsatt (?)

“Cognitively speaking, we metabolize mistakes!”
― William C. Wimsatt, Re-Engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings: Piecewise Approximations to Reality

tags: errors

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“Adaptive design is a layered organisation of kluged adaptations acquired sequentially and assembled on the fly: it is heuristic "all the way down".”
― William C. Wimsatt, Re-Engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings: Piecewise Approximations to Reality

tags: adaptation, evolution, kluge

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