Structure and Function by Rose Novick
The history of biology is mottled with disputes between two distinct approaches to the organic world: structuralism and functionalism. Their persistence across radical theory change makes them difficult to characterize: the characterization must be abstract enough to capture biologists with diverse theoretical commitments, yet not so abstract as to be vacuous. This Element develops a novel account of structuralism and functionalism in terms of explanatory strategies (Section 2). This reveals the possibility of integrating the two strategies; the explanatory successes of evolutionary-developmental biology essentially depend on such integration (Section 3). Neither explanatory strategy is universally subordinate to the other, though subordination with respect to particular explanatory tasks is possible (Section 4). Beyond structuralism and functionalism, philosophical analysis that centers explanatory strategies can illuminate conflicts within evolutionary theory more generally (Section 5).-
Slime Mould and Philosophy
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The Metaphysics of Biology
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Biological Organization
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Temporal Cognition in Animals
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Organic Progress and Evolutionary Theory
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Health and Disease
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Explanation in Biology
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Controlled Experiments
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Stem Cells
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Modelling Evolution
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Inclusive Fitness and Kin Selection
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The Darwinian Revolution
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Facts, Conventions, and the Levels of Selection
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The Challenge of Evolution to Religion
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Biology and Medical Theory
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The Causal Structure of Natural Selection
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Model Organisms
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The Role of Mathematics in Evolutionary Theory
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What Is Life? Revisited
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Evolution, Morality and the Fabric of Society
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The Scope of Evolutionary Thinking
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Ecological Models
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Paleoaesthetics and the Practice of Paleontology
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Human Cognitive Diversity
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The Organism
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Biological Individuality
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Games in the Philosophy of Biology
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Adaptation
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Social Darwinism
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Philosophy of Developmental Biology
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Philosophy of Immunology
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| ISBN 13 | 9781009387088 |
| ISBN 10 | 1009387081 |
| Title | Structure and Function |
| Author | Rose Novick |
| Series | Elements In The Philosophy Of Biology |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2023-03-09 |
| Number of pages | 88 |
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