Biological complexity and integrative pluralism
Editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mainland Spain
- Publisher CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780521520799
- ISBN10 0521520797
- Type Book
- Pages 244
- Published 2003
- Bookbinding Rustic
Sections
History And Philosophy Of ScienceBiological complexity and integrative pluralism
Editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mainland Spain
Book Details
This 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 multicomponent, multilevel, evolved complex systems. This integrative pluralism is the best 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.