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...
| Основни автори: | Bechtel, William, (Author), Richardson, Robert C., 1949- (Author) |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The MIT Press,
[2010]
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=324697 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Discovering complexity. |
Съдържание:
- 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.