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.
Temas:
Biological systems.
Systèmes biologiques.
NATURE > Reference.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > General.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Biology.
Biological systems
Wissenschaftsphilosophie
Biologisches System
Komplexes System
Pluralismus
Biodiversiteit.
Filosofische aspecten.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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