Andrew S. Reynolds

Understanding Metaphors in the Life Sciences

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Written for a general audience interested in how metaphorical language and thinking is used by life scientists to conceptualize and understand subjects from molecular genetics and cell biology to evolution, ecology, and biomedicine. It reveals the positive and negative implications of metaphors for scientific theory, communication, and education.

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Produktdetails

• Understanding Life
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 150
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 171mm x 125mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 250g
• ISBN-13: 9781108940498
• ISBN-10: 1108940498
• Artikelnr.: 62352188

Autorenporträt

Andrew S. Reynolds is Professor of Philosophy at Cape Breton University, Canada. He is the author of The Third Lens: Metaphor and the Creation of Modern Cell Biology (University of Chicago Press, 2018) and Peirce's Scientific Metaphysics: The Philosophy of Chance, Law and Evolution (Vanderbilt University Press, 2002). He has a PhD in the philosophy of science from the University of Western Ontario.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Metaphors and science; 2. Background metaphors: agents
machines
and information; 3. Genes and genomes: agents
codes
programs
blueprints
and books; 4. Proteins: machines
messengers
and team players; 5. Cells: factories
computers
and social organisms; 6. Evolution: natural selection
the tree of life
and selfish genes; 7. Ecology: the balance of nature
niches
ecosystem health
and gaia; 8. Biomedicine: genetic engineering
genome editing
and cell reprogramming.