Research Catalog

Title

Topics in the philosophy of biology / edited by Marjorie Grene and Everett Mendelsohn.

Publication

Dordrecht, Holland ; Boston : D. Reidel Pub. Co., ©1976.

Supplementary Content

20150401174159

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Details

Additional Authors

• Grene, Marjorie, 1910-2009.
• Mendelsohn, Everett.

Description

xii, 454 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Series Statement

• Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 27
• Synthese library ; v. 84

Uniform Title

• Synthese library ; v. 84.
• Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 27.

Subject

Biology > Philosophy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Aristotle and modern biology / Marjorie Grene -- Philosophical biology versus experimental biology / Everett I. Mendelsohn -- D'Arcy Thompson and the science of form / Stephen Jay Gould -- The Watson-Crick model and reductionism / Kenneth F. Schaffner -- Life's irreducible structure / Michael Polanyi -- Organizational levels and explanation / Clifford Grobstein -- Physical theories of biological co-ordination / H.H. Pattee -- Complexity and organization / William C. Wimsatt -- Function and teleology / Morton Beckner -- Functions / Larry Wright -- Articulation of parts explanation in biology and the rational search for them / Stuart A. Kauffman -- The strategy of evolution / Lawrence B. Slobodkin -- Evolution and the theory of games / R.C. Lewontin -- Biology as an autonomous science / Francisco J. Ayala -- Biological adaptation / Ronald Munson -- Species concepts and definitions / Ernst Mayr -- Biological classification / Vernon Pratt -- Contemporary systematic philosophies / David L. Hull.

Call Number

OA (Boston studies in the philosophy of science. v. 27)

ISBN

• 902770595X
• 9789027705952
• 9027705968
• 9789027705969

LCCN

75012875

OCLC

1341432

Title

Topics in the philosophy of biology / edited by Marjorie Grene and Everett Mendelsohn.

Imprint

Dordrecht, Holland ; Boston : D. Reidel Pub. Co., ©1976.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 27

Synthese library ; v. 84

Synthese library ; v. 84.

Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 27.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents

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Added Author

Grene, Marjorie, 1910-2009. Editor

Mendelsohn, Everett. Editor

Other Form:

Online version: Topics in the philosophy of biology. Dordrecht, Holland ; Boston : D. Reidel Pub. Co., ©1976 (OCoLC)605982643

Online version: Topics in the philosophy of biology. Dordrecht, Holland ; Boston : D. Reidel Pub. Co., ©1976 (OCoLC)607775635

Research Call Number

OA (Boston studies in the philosophy of science. v. 27)