Mapping the future of biology: evolving concepts and theories

This volume is the best available tool to compare and appraise the different approaches of today’s biology and their conceptual frameworks, serving as a springboard for new research on a clarified conceptual basis. It is expected to constitute a key reference work for biologists and philosophers of biology, aswell as for all scientists interested in understanding what is at stake in the present transformations of biological models and theories. The volume is distinguished by including, for the first time, self-reflections and exchanges ofviews on practice and theoretical attitudes by important participants in recent biological debates. The questions of how biological models and theories areconstructed, how concepts are chosen and how different models can be articulated, are asked. Then the book explores some of these convergences between different models or theoretical frameworks. Includes some recently discovered phenomena, such as molecular noise First time self reflections and exchanges of views on practice and theoretical attidues by important participants in rencent biological debates Key reference work for biologists and philosophers of biology INDICE: Foreword: Carving Nature at its Joints? Richard Lewontin. 1: Introduction; Anouk Barberousse, Michel Morange, Thomas Pradeu. 2: Articulating Different Modes of Explanation: The Present Boundary in Biological Research; Michel Morange. 3: Compromising Positions: The Minding of Matter; Susan Oyama. 4: Abstractions, Idealizations, and Evolutionary Biology; Peter Godfrey-Smith. 5:The Adequacy of Model Systems for Evo-Devo: Modeling the Formation Of Organisms / Modeling the Formation Of Society; Scott F. Gilbert. 6: Niche Construction in Evolution, Ecosystems and Developmental Biology; John Odling-Smee. 7: Novelty, Plasticity and Niche Construction: The Influence of Phenotypic Variationon Evolution; Kim Sterelny. 8: The Evolution of Complexity; Mark A. Bedau. 9:Self-Organization, Self-Assembly, and the Origin of Life; Evelyn Fox Keller. 10: Self-Organization and Complexity in Evolutionary Theory, or, In this Life the Bread Always Falls Jammy Side Down; Michael Ruse.

• ISBN: 978-1-4020-9635-8
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Desconocida
• Páginas: 195
• Fecha Publicación: 01/04/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés