This book summarizes the philosophy of discovery and elaborates the role that mechanisms play in biological discovery.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Lindley Darden is Professor of Philosophy and in the Committee for Philosophy and the Sciences at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the author of Theory Change in Science: Strategies from Mendelian Genetics, as well as numerous articles in history and philosophy of science journals. Elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1995, she served as President of the International Society for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology from 2001 to 2003.
Inhaltsangabe
Long contents List of figures List of tables Acknowledgements Introduction Part I. Biological Mechanisms: 1. Thinking about mechanisms Peter Machamer and Carl F. Craver 2. Discovering mechanisms in neurobiology: the case of spatial memory Carl F. Craver 3. Strategies in the interfield discovery of the mechanism of protein synthesis Carl F. Craver 4. Relations among fields: Mendelian, cytological and molecular mechanisms Part II. Reasoning Strategies: Relating Fields, Resolving Anomalies: 5. Interfield theories Nancy Maull 6. Theory construction in genetics 7. Relations among fields in the evolutionary synthesis 8. Selection type theories Joseph A. Cain 9. Strategies for anomaly resolution: diagnosis and redesign 10. Exemplars, abstractions, and anomalies: representations and theory change in Mendelian and molecular genetics 11. Strategies for anomaly resolution in the case of adaptive mutation Part III. Discovering Mechanisms: Construction, Evaluation, Revision: 12. Strategies for discovering mechanisms: construction, evaluation, revision Bibliography Index.
Long contents List of figures List of tables Acknowledgements Introduction Part I. Biological Mechanisms: 1. Thinking about mechanisms Peter Machamer and Carl F. Craver 2. Discovering mechanisms in neurobiology: the case of spatial memory Carl F. Craver 3. Strategies in the interfield discovery of the mechanism of protein synthesis Carl F. Craver 4. Relations among fields: Mendelian, cytological and molecular mechanisms Part II. Reasoning Strategies: Relating Fields, Resolving Anomalies: 5. Interfield theories Nancy Maull 6. Theory construction in genetics 7. Relations among fields in the evolutionary synthesis 8. Selection type theories Joseph A. Cain 9. Strategies for anomaly resolution: diagnosis and redesign 10. Exemplars, abstractions, and anomalies: representations and theory change in Mendelian and molecular genetics 11. Strategies for anomaly resolution in the case of adaptive mutation Part III. Discovering Mechanisms: Construction, Evaluation, Revision: 12. Strategies for discovering mechanisms: construction, evaluation, revision Bibliography Index.
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