Wei Fang

The Explanatory Autonomy of the Biological Sciences

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780367707880
• ISBN-10: 0367707888
• Artikelnr.: 70343468

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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