The Future of Scientific Practice

'Bio-Techno-Logos'
Herausgeber: Bertolaso, Marta

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on cell dynamics, molecular medicine and robotics, contributors explore the interplay between biological, technological and theoretical ways of thinking. The collection makes a strong contribution to current debates in the philosophy of science and the changing role of scientific practice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 542g
• ISBN-13: 9781848935624
• ISBN-10: 1848935625
• Artikelnr.: 43751440

Autorenporträt

Bertolaso, Marta

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Philosophy within Science; Part I Biological Dynamics;
Chapter 1 Microscopic and Macroscopic Insights on Dynamic Cell Behaviour,
Kumar Selvarajoo; Chapter 2 News from the 'Twilight Zone': Protein
Molecules between the Crystal and the Watch, Alessandro Giuliani; Chapter 3
Limits to Deterministic-Linear Causality in Biomedicine: Effects of
Stochasticity and Non-Linearity in Molecular Networks, Sui Huang; Chapter 4
Embodied Intelligence in the Biomechatronic Design of Robots, Dino Accoto,
Cecilia Laschi, Eugenio Guglielmelli; Part II Reflecting on Scientific
Understanding and Understanding by Building; Chapter 5 Managing Complexity:
Model-Building in Systems Biology and its Challenges for Philosophy of
Science, Miles MacLeod; Chapter 6 Stratification and Biomedicine: How
Philosophy Stems from Medicine and Biotechnology, F. Boem, G. Boniolo, Z.
Pavelka; Chapter 7 Epistemology of Robotics: An Outline, Giampaolo
Ghilardi; Part III Towards a Development of a Philosophy of Scientific
Practice; Chapter 8 Prediction and Prescription in Biological Systems: The
Role of Technology for Measurement and Transformation, Wenceslao J.
Gonzalez; Chapter 9 Teleology and Mechanism in Biology, Marco Buzzoni;
Chapter 10 Scientific Understanding and the Explanatory use of False
Models, Antonio Diéguez; Chapter 11 Bio-Techno-Logos and Scientific
Practice, M. Bertolaso, N. Di Stefano, G. Ghilardi, A. Marcos;