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Shifting Attention From Theory to Practice in Philosophy of Biology
investigative practice gene concept evolutionary theory reductionism biology
2016/6/15
Traditional approaches in philosophy of biology focus attention on biological concepts, explanations, and theories, on evidential support and inter-theoretical relations. Newer approaches shift attent...
Varieties of Noise:Analogical Reasoning in Synthetic Biology
Synthetic biology interdisciplinarity analogical reasoning engineering sciences complex systems noise
2016/6/14
The picture of synthetic biology as a kind of engineering science has largely created the public understanding of this novel field, covering both its promises and risks. In this paper, we will argue t...
Lateral and vertical transfer in biology,linguistics and anthropology-An account of widely neglected ideas in the formation of evolutionary theories
unilinear transmission of cultural and biological replicators phylogenetic images of descent tree of life and the tree of languages metaphors 'antidotes' to evolution lateral and vertical transfer in biology linguistics and the history of sciences networks and reticulations Sprachbund mixed languages endosymbiosis cultural diffusion anti-evolutionism evolutionary epistemiology
2016/6/14
Models of biological and cultural evolution that developed from the 19th century onward are characterized by two main features:(1)They were mostly centered on the unilinear transmission of cultural an...
When one model is not enough:Combining epistemic tools in systems biology
modeling reverse engineering network motifs Rheinberger engineering analogies historical epistemology
2016/6/13
In recent years, the philosophical focus of the modeling literature has shifted from descriptions of general properties of models to an interest in different model functions. It has been argued that t...
Tracing organizing principles:Learning from the history of systems biology
systems biology organizing principles general systems theory design principles mathematical modeling
2016/6/13
With the emergence of systems biology the notion of organizing principles is being highlighted as a key research aim. Researchers attempt to ‘reverse engineer’ the functional organization of biologica...
Systems Biology and the Integration of Mechanistic Explanation and Mathematical Explanation
Systems biology integration mechanistic explanation mathematical models mechanisms
2016/6/12
The paper discusses how systems biology is working toward complex accounts that integrate explanation in terms of mechanisms and explanation by mathematical models—which some philosophers have viewed ...
Practice-oriented controversies and borrowed epistemic credibility in current evolutionary biology:phylogeography as a case study
evolutionary biology scientific practice scientific controversy phylogeography epistemic credibility coalescent population genetic and phylogenetic modeling
2016/6/12
Although there is increasing recognition that theory and practice in science are intimately intertwined, philosophy of science perspectives on scientific controversies have been historically focused o...
Do Microbes Question Standard Thinking in the Philosophy of Biology?Critical Notice of John Dupré "Processes of Life–Essays in the Philosophy of Biology"
philosophy of biology microbes life organism cooperation
2016/5/31
Do Microbes Question Standard Thinking in the Philosophy of Biology?Critical Notice of John Dupré "Processes of Life–Essays in the Philosophy of Biology".
Diagrams as Locality Aids for Explanation and Model Construction in Cell Biology
cell biology diagram explanation locality aid model construction
2016/5/30
Using as case studies two early diagrams that represent mechanisms of the cell division cycle, we aim to extend prior philosophical analyses of the roles of diagrams in scientific reasoning, and speci...
Mathematical biology and the existence of biological laws
Laws Mathematical biology Contingency Dynamical systems Reducibility
2016/5/30
An influential position in the philosophy of biology claims that there are no biological laws, since any apparently biological generalization is either too accidental, fact-like or contingent to be na...
Complex emergence and the living organization:an epistemological framework for biology
autopoiesis biological autonomy complex emergence downward causation organization pattern generation
2016/5/27
In this article an epistemological framework is proposed in order to integrate the emergentist thought with systemic studies on biological autonomy, which are focused on the role of organization. Part...
Practice-oriented controversies and borrowed epistemic support in current evolutionary biology: phylogeography as a case study
scientific practice, scientific controversy, epistemic credibility, phylogeography, statistical inference, Bayesianism, Popperianism
2011/10/9
Although there is increasing recognition that theory and practice in science are often inseparably intertwined, discussions of scientific controversies often continue to focus on theory, and not pract...
Explanation in Biology: Reduction, Pluralism, and Explanatory Aims
biology explanation integration mechanisms pluralism reduction
2011/9/8
This essay analyzes and develops recent views about explanation in biology. Philosophers of biology have parted with the received deductive-nomological model of scientific explanation primarily by att...
《Biology and Philosophy》（图）
Biology Philosophy
2010/2/25
Recent decades have witnessed fascinating and controversial advances in the biological sciences. This journal answers the need for meta-theoretical analysis, both about the very nature of biology, as ...
An oft-repeated claim is that there is information in some biological entity or process, most especially in genes (Downes 2005). Some of these claims derive from the Central Dogma, population genetics...