Explanation in biology : an enquiry into the diversity of explanatory patterns in the life sciences / Pierre-Alain Braillard, Christophe Malaterre [editors].

• Explanation in biology : an introduction / Pierre-Alain Braillard and Christophe Malaterre -- Is there an explanation for ... the diversity of explanations in biological studies? / Michel Morange -- Explanation in systems biology : is it all about mechanisms? / Constantinos Mekios -- Historical contingency and the explanation of evolutionary trends / Derek Turner -- Developmental noise : explaining the specific heterogeneity of individual organisms / Francesca Merlin -- Explaining in contemporary molecular biology : beyond mechanisms / Frédérique Théry -- Evolutionary developmental biology and the limits of philosophical accounts of mechanistic explanation / Ingo Brigandt -- The relevance of irrelevance : explanation in systems biology / Fridolin Gross -- Generalizing mechanistic explanations using graph-theoretic representations / William Bechtel -- Mathematical explanation in biology / Alan Baker -- Explanation and organizing principles in systems biology / Tobias Breidenmoser and Olaf Wolkenhauer -- Are dynamic mechanistic explanations still mechanistic? / Tarik Issad and Christophe Malaterre -- Heuristics, descriptions, and the scope of mechanistic explanation / Carlos Zednik -- Prospect and limits of explaining biological systems in engineering terms / Pierre-Alain Braillard -- From mechanisms to mathematical models and back to mechanisms : quantitative mechanistic explanations / Tudor M. Baetu -- Biological explanations as cursory covering law explanations / Joel Press -- Explanatory interdependence : the case of stem cell reprogramming / Melinda Bonnie Fagan -- Explaining causal selection with explanatory causal economy : biology and beyond / Laura R. Franklin-Hall.

• Patterns of explanation in biology have long been recognized as different from those deployed in other scientific disciplines, especially that of physics. Celebrating the diversity of interpretative models found in biology, this volume details their varying types as well as explaining their relationships to one another. It covers the key differentials with other sciences in the nature of explanation, such as the existence in biology of varieties unheard of in the physical sciences, such as teleological, evolutionary and even functional explanations. Offering a wealth of fresh analysis of the phenomenon, chapters examine aspects ranging from the role of mathematics in explaining cell development to the complexities thrown up by evolutionary-developmental biology, where explanation is altered by multidisciplinarity itself. They cover major domains such as ecology and systems biology, as well as contemporary trends, such as the mechanistic explanations spawned by progress in molecular biology. With contributions from researchers of many different nationalities, the book provides a many-angled perspective on a revealing feature of the discipline of biology. 

Ämnesord

Förklaring (filosofi)  (sao)

Explanation.  (fast)

Biology  -- Philosophy. (fast)

Life sciences  -- Philosophy. (fast)

Biologi  -- teori, filosofi (sao)

Biovetenskaper  -- teori, filosofi (sao)

Explanation  (LCSH)

Klassifikation

570.1 (DDC)

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