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Beschreibung
This book argues for the explanatory autonomy of the biological sciences. It does so by showing that scientific explanations in the biological sciences cannot be reduced to explanations in the fundamental sciences, and by demonstrating that biological explanations are advanced by models rather than laws of nature.
This book argues for the explanatory autonomy of the biological sciences. It does so by showing that scientific explanations in the biological sciences cannot be reduced to explanations in the fundamental sciences, and by demonstrating that biological explanations are advanced by models rather than laws of nature.
Über den Autor

Wei Fang is Associate Professor in the Research Centre for Philosophy of Science and Technology, Shanxi University, China. His research topics include scientific explanation, models and modeling, causal modeling, mechanisms, among others, and has published a number of papers in, among others, Philosophy of Science, Biology & Philosophy, and Synthese.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction

2. Multiple Realization and Reductionism

3. Explanation in Biology: Context Dependence, Extra Information, and Pragmatics

4. Are Laws the Only Things That Matter?

5. Models That Matter: The Similarity View

6. A Holistic View of the Model-World Relationship

7. How Biological Models are Explanatory

8. Conclusion

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780367707880
ISBN-10: 0367707888
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Fang, Wei
Hersteller: Routledge
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 11 mm
Von/Mit: Wei Fang
Erscheinungsdatum: 27.05.2024
Gewicht: 0,295 kg
Artikel-ID: 128872347