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Were one to characterize the aims of this book ambitiously, it could be said to sketch the philosophical foundations or underpinnings of the scientific world view or, better, of the scientific conception of the world. This view is a kind of scientific realism - causal internal realism, as it is dubbed in the book.

Emergent evolution combines three separate but related claims, whose background, origin, and development I trace in this work: firstly, that evolution is a universal process of change, one which is productive of qualitative novelties;

GENERAL The term "diagnostics" refers to the general theory of diagnosis, not to the study of specific diagnoses but to their general framework.

Satisfying Reason is an explanation of the presuppositions and methods of rational enquiry, an original exercise in metaknowledge, developing a systematic body of knowledge about the scope and limits of knowledge itself.

Readership: Specialists in the philosophy of science, especially the philosophy of biology, biologists and ecologists interested in the philosophy of their discipline.

Invited Papers from the Fifth International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic held at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA, May 13-16, 1975, with a Bibliography of "manyvalued Logic" by R.G. Wolf