Philosophy of experimental biology / Marcel Weber.
It concludes that historical explanations of scientific change that are based on local laboratory practice need to be supplemented with an account of the epistemic norms and standards that are operative in science. This book should be of interest to philosophers and historians of science as well as...
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Cambridge [England] ; New York, N.Y. :
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2005, 2004.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in philosophy and biology.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Reductionism and the nature of explanations
- Discovery: Solving biological problems
- Scientific inference: Testing hypotheses
- Experimental systems: A life of their own?
- Model organisms: Of flies and elephants
- Reference and conceptual change: Out of Mendel's garden?
- Developmental biology and the genetic program: Explaining ontogeny
- Scientific realism: In search of the truth.