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HAGERTY: And finally, there's Michael Giere, a mortgage banker and Evangelical Christian.
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HAGERTY: Giere says religious conservatives are the sleeping giants in the Tea Party.
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HAGERTY: And finally, there's Michael Giere, a mortgage banker and Evangelical Christian.
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HAGERTY: Giere says religious conservatives are the sleeping giants in the Tea Party.
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HAGERTY: Giere says religious conservatives are the sleeping giants in the Tea Party.
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HAGERTY: And finally, there's Michael Giere, a mortgage banker and Evangelical Christian.
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If a theory is just a toolbox of models, something like an integrated collection of Kuhnian exemplars (Giere 1988, Teller 2008), then the claim for a revolutionary theory development of some kind becomes more plausible.
Scientific Revolutions Nickles, Thomas 2009
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Giere (1986) first suggested that a form of structural realism was the result of conjoining modal realism with constructive empiricism.
Structural Realism Ladyman, James 2009
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And here one encounters the directly related issues of conceptual schemes, frameworks and worldviews, incommensurability, relativism, contextualism and perspectivalism (for a general discussion see Lynch 1998; on perspectivalism about scientific models see Giere 1999 and Rueger 2005).
The Unity of Science Cat, Jordi 2007
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The shift extends to more recent notion of models that do not fall under the strict semantic or model-theoretic notion of mathematical structures (Giere 2001; Morgan and Morrison 1999; Cat 2005).
The Unity of Science Cat, Jordi 2007
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