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Darwinian Reductionism

Name: Darwinian Reductionism
Brand: The University of Chicago Press
SKU: 9780226727295
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Szerző: Alexander Rosenberg

Nyelv:

Kötés: Kemény kötésű

Kiadó: The University of Chicago Press

Elérhetőség: Utánnyomás

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After the discovery of the structure of DNA in 1953, scientists working in molecular biology embrace...

Információk a könyvről

Szerző

Alexander Rosenberg

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

2006

oldal

272

EAN

9780226727295

ISBN

0226727297

Enbook ID

04548894

Kiadó

The University of Chicago Press

Súly

514

Méretek

236 x 163 x 24

Teljes leírás

After the discovery of the structure of DNA in 1953, scientists working in molecular biology embraced reductionism--the theory that all complex systems can be understood in terms of their components. Reductionism, however, has been widely resisted by both nonmolecular biologists and scientists working outside the field of biology. Many of these antireductionists, nevertheless, embrace the notion of physicalism--the idea that all biological processes are physical in nature. How, Alexander Rosenberg asks, can these self-proclaimed physicalists also be antireductionists? With clarity and wit, "Darwinian Reductionism" navigates this difficult and seemingly intractable dualism with convincing analysis and timely evidence. In the spirit of the few distinguished biologists who accept reductionism--E. O. Wilson, Francis Crick, Jacques Monod, James Watson, and Richard Dawkins--Rosenberg provides a philosophically sophisticated defense of reductionism and applies it to molecular developmental biology and the theory of natural selection, ultimately proving that the physicalist must also be a reductionist.