Explanation in biology : an enquiry into the diversity of explanatory patterns in the life sciences / Pierre-Alain Braillard, Christophe Malaterre.
Tipo de material:
TextoSeries History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences ; 11Editor: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Springer, 2015Descripción: vi, 438 páginas : 52 ilustracionesTipo de contenido: - texto
- computadora
- recurso en línea
- 9789401798228
- QH331
Springer eBooks
Chapter 1. “Explanation in Biology: An Introduction” -- PART I – EXPLORING EXPLANATORY PLURALISM IN BIOLOGY -- Chapter 2. “Is There an Explanation for the Diversity of Explanations in Biological Sciences?” -- Chapter 3. “Explanation in Systems Biology: Is It All About Mechanisms?” -- Chapter 4. “Historical Contingency and the Explanation of Evolutionary Trends” -- Chapter 5. “Developmental Noise: Explaining the Specific Heterogeneity of Individual Organisms” -- PART II – MECHANISTIC EXPLANATION: APPLICATIONS AND EMENDATIONS -- Chapter 6. “Explaining in Contemporary Molecular Biology: Beyond Mechanisms” -- Chapter 7. “Evolutionary Developmental Biology and the Limits of Philosophical Accounts of Mechanistic Explanation” -- Chapter 8. “The Relevance of Irrelevance: Explanation in Systems Biology” -- Chapter 9. “Graph-Theoretic Perspectives on Dynamic Mechanistic Explanation” -- PART III – THE ROLE OF MATHEMATICS IN BIOLOGICAL EXPLANATIONS -- Chapter 10. “Mathematical Explanation in Biology” -- Chapter 11. “Explanation and Organizing Principles in Systems Biology” -- Chapter 12. “Are dynamic mechanistic explanations still mechanistic?” -- PART IV – THE ROLE OF HEURISTICS IN BIOLOGICAL EXPLANATIONS -- Chapter 13. “Heuristics, Descriptions, and the Scope of Mechanistic Explanation” -- Chapter 14. “Prospect and Limits of Explaining Biological Systems in Engineering Terms” -- Chapter 15. “From Mechanisms to Mathematical Models and Back to Mechanisms: Quantitative Mechanistic Explanations” -- PART V – NEW THEORIES OF EXPLANATION IN BIOLOGY AND ELSEWHERE -- Chapter 16. “Biological Explanations as Cursory Covering Law Explanations” -- Chapter 17. “Explaining Cell Development: Stem Cells and Reprogramming” -- Chapter 18. “Explaining Causal Selection with Explanatory Causal Economy : Biology and Beyond”.
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