Philosophy of Experimental Biology

Marcel Weber - Collection Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology

358 pages, parution le 04/11/2004

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Philosophy of Experimental Biology explores some central philosophical issues concerning scientific research in modern experimental biology, including genetics, biochemistry, molecular biology, developmental biology, neurobiology, and microbiology. It seeks to make sense of the explanatory strategies, concepts, ways of reasoning, approaches to discovery and problem solving, tools, models and experimental systems deployed by modern scientific life science researchers and also integrates recent developments in historical scholarship, in particular the New Experimentalism. It concludes that historical explanations of scientific change that are based on local laboratory practice need to be supplemented with an account of the epistemic norms and standards that are operative in science. This book should be of interest to philosophers and historians of science as well as to scientists.

L'auteur - Marcel Weber

Marcel Wber is Swiss National Science Foundation Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Basel, Switzerland.

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Introduction
Reductionism and the nature of explanations
Discovery: solving biological problems
Scientific inference: testing hypotheses
Experimental systems: a life of their own?
Model organisms: of flies and elephants
Reference and conceptual change: out of Mendel's garden?
Developmental biology and the genetic program: explaining ontogeny
Scientific realism: in search of the truth

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Éditeur(s)	Cambridge University Press
Auteur(s)	Marcel Weber
Collection	Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology
Parution	04/11/2004
Nb. de pages	358
Format	16 x 23,5
Couverture	Relié
Poids	639g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780521829458
ISBN13	978-0-521-82945-8