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Biological complexity and integrative pluralism /

"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 basi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mitchell, Sandra D., 1951-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York, N.Y. : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Colección:Cambridge studies in philosophy and biology.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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