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Shifting Attention From Theory to Practice in Philosophy of Biology
investigative practice gene concept evolutionary theory reductionism biology
2016/6/15
Traditional approaches in philosophy of biology focus attention on biological concepts, explanations, and theories, on evidential support and inter-theoretical relations. Newer approaches shift attent...
Varieties of Noise:Analogical Reasoning in Synthetic Biology
Synthetic biology interdisciplinarity analogical reasoning engineering sciences complex systems noise
2016/6/14
The picture of synthetic biology as a kind of engineering science has largely created the public understanding of this novel field, covering both its promises and risks. In this paper, we will argue t...
Diagrams as Locality Aids for Explanation and Model Construction in Cell Biology
cell biology diagram explanation locality aid model construction
2016/5/30
Using as case studies two early diagrams that represent mechanisms of the cell division cycle, we aim to extend prior philosophical analyses of the roles of diagrams in scientific reasoning, and speci...
Mathematical biology and the existence of biological laws
Laws Mathematical biology Contingency Dynamical systems Reducibility
2016/5/30
An influential position in the philosophy of biology claims that there are no biological laws, since any apparently biological generalization is either too accidental, fact-like or contingent to be na...
Complex emergence and the living organization:an epistemological framework for biology
autopoiesis biological autonomy complex emergence downward causation organization pattern generation
2016/5/27
In this article an epistemological framework is proposed in order to integrate the emergentist thought with systemic studies on biological autonomy, which are focused on the role of organization. Part...
Explanation in Biology: Reduction, Pluralism, and Explanatory Aims
biology explanation integration mechanisms pluralism reduction
2011/9/8
This essay analyzes and develops recent views about explanation in biology. Philosophers of biology have parted with the received deductive-nomological model of scientific explanation primarily by att...
《Biology and Philosophy》（图）
Biology Philosophy
2010/2/25
Recent decades have witnessed fascinating and controversial advances in the biological sciences. This journal answers the need for meta-theoretical analysis, both about the very nature of biology, as ...