Discovering Complexity : Decomposition and Localization as Strategies in Scientific Research /

"In Discovering Complexity, William Bechtel and Robert Richardson examine two heuristics that guided the development of mechanistic models in the life sciences: decomposition and localization. Drawing on historical cases from disciplines including cell biology, cognitive neuroscience, and genet...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Bechtel, William (Autor), Richardson, Robert C., 1949- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2010]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Research > Methodology.
Localization theory.
Decomposition method.
Complexity (Philosophy)
SCIENCE > Research & Methodology.
Complexite (Philosophie)
Theorie de la localisation.
Recherche > Methodologie.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cognitive strategies and scientific discovery
  • Complex systems and mechanistic explanations
  • Identifying the locus of control
  • Direct localization
  • The rejection of mechanism
  • Complex localization
  • Integrated mechanisms
  • Reconstituting the phenomena
  • "emergent" phenomena in interconnected networks
  • Constructing causal explanations.

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