One of this thinker's papers posits that "persistence" and "plasticity" are the two essential criteria of goal-directed processes.
This thinker argued that because theoretical statements are not translatable into statements about the immediate objects of experience without a loss of meaningful content, "descriptivist" interpretations of theories inevitably collapse into "instrumentalist" interpretations. One of this thinker's papers posits that "persistence" and "plasticity" are the two essential criteria of goal-directed processes. When a target theory includes terms not included in the base theory from which it was reduced, it produces what this thinker called a "heterogeneous reduction." This author of Teleology Revisited argued that vocabularies from distinct scienti c theories could be linked by bi-conditional "coordinating de nitions" producing what he called "bridge laws" in The Structure of Science. For 10 points, name this foremost 20th-century analytical philosopher of science, who shares his last name with the author of Mind and Cosmos and "What is it Like to Be a Bat?"
This thinker argued that because theoretical statements are not translatable into statements about the immediate objects of experience without a loss of meaningful content, "descriptivist" interpretations of theories inevitably collapse into "instrumentalist" interpretations.
Ernest Nagel [do not accept "Thomas Nagel"]