Biological Complexity and Integrative Pluralism

This fine collection of essays by a leading philosopher of science presents a defense of integrative pluralism as the best description for the complexity of scientific inquiry today. The tendency of some scientists to unify science by reducing all theories to a few fundamental laws of the most basic...

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Egile nagusia: Mitchell, Sandra D
Formatua: Liburua
Hizkuntza:Undetermined
Argitaratua: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2003
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Gaia:This fine collection of essays by a leading philosopher of science presents a defense of integrative pluralism as the best description for the complexity of scientific inquiry today. The tendency of some scientists to unify science by reducing all theories to a few fundamental laws of the most basic particles that populate our universe is ill-suited to the biological sciences, which study multi-component, multi-level, evolved complex systems.