Biological complexity and integrative pluralism
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Biological complexity and integrative pluralism
（Cambridge studies in philosophy and biology）
Cambridge University Press, 2003
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This fine collection of essays by a leading philosopher of science presents a defence 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. This integrative pluralism is the most efficient way to understand the different and complex processes - historical and interactive - that generate biological phenomena. This book will be of interest to students and professionals in the philosophy of science.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- Part I. Complexity: 2. Constitutive complexity
- 3. Dynamic complexity
- 4. Evolved diversity
- Part II. Pluralism: 5. Laws
- 6. Pluralism or disunity.
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