William C Wimsatt
William C Wimsatt
After an initial discussion of the character of interdisciplinary linkages between complex disciplines, I consider an area with confluences of many diverse disciplines-the study of cultural evolution. This must embrace not only the traditio...
Integration in biology: Philosophical perspectives on the dynamics of interdisciplinarity [0.03%]
生物学中的整合：跨学科动力学的哲学视角
Ingo Brigandt
Ingo Brigandt
This introduction to the special section on integration in biology provides an overview of the different contributions. In addition to motivating the philosophical significance of analyzing integration and interdisciplinary research, I lay ...
Dimensions of integration in interdisciplinary explanations of the origin of evolutionary novelty [0.03%]
起源的跨学科解释中的整合维度突发事件演化
Alan C Love,Gary L Lugar
Alan C Love
Many philosophers of biology have embraced a version of pluralism in response to the failure of theory reduction but overlook how concepts, methods, and explanatory resources are in fact coordinated, such as in interdisciplinary research wh...
Assessing statistical views of natural selection: Room for non-local causation? [0.03%]
审视自然选择的统计观点：非局部因果作用的空间存在与否？
Philippe Huneman
Philippe Huneman
Recently some philosophers (the "statisticalists") have emphasized a potentially irreconcilable conceptual antagonism between the statistical characterization of natural selection (derived from population genetics) and the standard scientif...
The benefits of rule following: A new account of the evolution of desires [0.03%]
遵从规则的好处：欲求进化的一种新解释
Armin W Schulz
Armin W Schulz
A key component of much current research in behavioral ecology, cognitive science, and economics is a model of the mind at least partly based on beliefs and desires. However, despite this prevalence, there are still many open questions conc...
Coupling simulation and experiment: The bimodal strategy in integrative systems biology [0.03%]
模拟与实验相结合：整合系统生物学中的双模式策略
Miles MacLeod,Nancy J Nersessian
Miles MacLeod
The importation of computational methods into biology is generating novel methodological strategies for managing complexity which philosophers are only just starting to explore and elaborate. This paper aims to enrich our understanding of m...
Mathieu Charbonneau
Mathieu Charbonneau
The use of physical models of molecular structures as research tools has been central to the development of biochemistry and molecular biology. Intriguingly, it has received little attention from scholars of science. In this paper, I argue ...
Systems biology and the integration of mechanistic explanation and mathematical explanation [0.03%]
系统生物学与机械论解释及数学解释的整合
Ingo Brigandt
Ingo Brigandt
The paper discusses how systems biology is working toward complex accounts that integrate explanation in terms of mechanisms and explanation by mathematical models-which some philosophers have viewed as rival models of explanation. Systems ...
Integration of approaches in David Wake's model-taxon research platform for evolutionary morphology [0.03%]
戴维·威克模式分类群研究平台中方法的整合以探讨演化形态学中的问题
James Griesemer
James Griesemer
What gets integrated in integrative scientific practices has been a topic of much discussion. Traditional views focus on theories and explanations, with ideas of reduction and unification dominating the conversation. More recent ideas focus...
Anya Plutynski
Anya Plutynski
Cancer is not one, but many diseases, and each is a product of a variety of causes acting (and interacting) at distinct temporal and spatial scales, or "levels" in the biological hierarchy. In part because of this diversity of cancer types ...