Studies in the philosophy of biology: reduction and related problems
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Corporate Author: Conference on Problems of Reduction in Biology Bellagio (Author)
Other Authors: Ayala, Francisco José 1934-2023 (Editor), Dobzhansky, Theodosius 1900-1975 (Editor)
Format: Conference Proceeding Book
Language:English
Published: London ; Basingstoke Macmillan 1974
Edition:1st publ.
Subjects:
Item Description:Contents: Introductory remarks / Theodosius Dobzhansky -- From Aristotle to Democritus via Darwin / G. Montalenti -- Evolutionary theories after Lamarck and Darwin / Ernest Boesiger -- Problem of molecular recognition by a selective system / Gerald M. Edelman -- Geometric model of reduction and emergence / Peter Medawar -- Changing strategies: a comparison of reductionist attitudes in biological and medical research in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / June Goodfield -- Cerebral activity and consciousness / John C. Eccles -- Reductionism in biology / William H. Thorpe -- Unjustified variation and selective retention in scientific discovery / Donald T. Campbell -- Reduction, hierarchies and organicism / Morton Beckner -- 'Downward causation' in hierarchically organised biological system / Donald T. Campbell -- On the relations between compositional and evolutionary theories / Dudly Shapere -- Problems of rationality in biology / Henryk Skolimowski -- Chance, necessity and purpose / Charles Birch -- Polynomistic determination of biological processes / Bernhard Rensch -- Scientific reduction and the essential incompleteness of all science / Karl B. Popper -- Adaptive shifts and evolutionary novelty: a compositionist approach / G. Ledyard Stebbins -- Chance and creativity in evolution / Theodosius Dobzhansky -- Concept of biological progress / Francisco J. Ayala -- On chance and necessity / Jacques Monod. - Proceedings of the conference on Problems of reduction in biology held at the Study and Conference Center of the Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio, Italy, from 9 to 16 September 1972, includes bibliographies and index
Physical Description:XIX, 390 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm
ISBN:0333148606

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