Biological complexity and integrative pluralism:
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1. Verfasser: Mitchell, Sandra D. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 2003
Schriftenreihe:Cambridge studies in philosophy and biology
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-237) and index
1 - Introduction -- - 2 - Constitutive Complexity -- - 2.1 - Compositional Complexity and the Superorganism Metaphor -- - 3 - Dynamic Complexity -- - 3.1 - The Evolution of Division of Labor -- - 4 - Evolved Diversity -- - 4.1 - Competing Units of Selection? A Case of Symbiosis -- - 4.2 - The Units of Behavior in Evolutionary Explanations -- - 4.3 - On Biological Functions
"This collection of essays by a leading philosopher of science presents a defense of integrative pluralism as the best description for the complexity of scientific inquiry today. The tendency of some scientists to unify science by reducing all theories to a few fundamental laws of the most basic particles that populate our universe is ill-suited to the biological sciences, which study multicomponent, multilevel, evolved complex systems
This integrative pluralism is the best way to understand the different and complex processes - historical and interactive - that generate biological phenomena." "This book will be of interest to students and professionals in the philosophy of science."--Jacket
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xv, 244 pages)
ISBN:051106120X
0511802684
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0521817536
9780511061202
9780511802683
9780521520799
9780521817530

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