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...
| Основен автор: | Mitchell, Sandra D., 1951- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Cambridge, UK ; New York, N.Y. :
Cambridge University Press,
2003.
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| Серия: |
Cambridge studies in philosophy and biology.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=120740 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Biological complexity and integrative pluralism. |
Съдържание:
- 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.