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9780521817530

Biological Complexity and Integrative Pluralism

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521817530

  • ISBN10:

    0521817536

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2003-09-15
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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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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