Images of development : environmental causes in ontogeny

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    • Weele, Cor van der

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Images of development : environmental causes in ontogeny

Cor van der Weele

(SUNY series in philosophy and biology)

State University of New York Press, c1999

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

Images of Development questions the dominant biological approach of explaining animal development as entirely genetic by exploring the explanatory value of investigating environmental influences. Van der Weele discusses assumptions, explanatory patterns, and conceptual tools in developmental and evolutionary biology and reviews many concrete examples of environmental influence in animal development. She provides perspectives from biology, philosophy of science, and ethics in an integrative way.

目次

List of Illustrations Foreword 1. Introduction: How to Understand Development? Choices Three Approaches to Development Metaphors and Science Environmental Influence: A General Picture Is Not Enough Morality Relationships with Other Discussions 2. Three Casual Approaches Metaphors Surrounding DNA Segmentation in Drosophila Switches and Responses Fields/Structures: Goodwin versus Neo-Darwinsim Networks/Constructions Comparison and Conclusions 3. Explanations in their Theoretical Context Completeness and the Ideal Explanatory Text The Ideal Text and Pragmatism Trade-Offs Linguistic Choices: Metaphors Casual Explanation: Differences Casual Explanation in Genetics What Is Relational Causation Structuralist Causation Contructionist Causation Similarities and Differences Implications for the Pragmatics of Casual Explanation 4. Development and Evolution Integrating Separate Disciplines Proximate and Ultimate Causes Internal versus External Causes Integration: Internal Constraints? Different Roles for the Environment Epigenetics and Evolution Developmental Systems and the Boundary Problem 5. Environmental Causes in Ontogeny Conceptual Tools: Norms of Reaction ... And Polyphenisms Epigenetics: Study of Gene Regulation Heat-Shock Proteins Making a Difference Abnormal Environments Toward an Ecology of Development 6. Ethics of Attention Garfinkel and Value-Laden Explanations Nonmoral Motives: Positivity Bias Casual Choices and their Context Contested Scientific Choices Ethics of Attention Notes References Coda Index

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