Philosophy of Experimental Biology

Explores some central philosophical issues concerning scientific research in experimental biology.

Autorentext
Marcel Weber is Privatdozent at the Center for Philosophy and Ethics of Science, University of Hannover, Germany.

Klappentext
This book explores some central philosophical issues concerning scientific research in experimental biology.

Zusammenfassung
Philosophy of Experimental Biology explores some central philosophical issues concerning scientific research in experimental biology, including genetics, biochemistry, molecular biology, developmental biology, neurobiology, and microbiology. This book should be of interest to philosophers and historians of science as well as to scientists.

Inhalt
Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Reductionism and the nature of explanations; 3. Discovery: solving biological problems; 4. Scientific inference: testing hypotheses; 5. Experimental systems: a life of their own?; 6. Model organisms: of flies and elephants; 7. Reference and conceptual change: out of Mendel's garden?; 8. Developmental biology and the genetic program: explaining ontogeny; 9. Scientific realism: in search of the truth; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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