Levels of Organization in the Biological Sciences
Edited by Daniel S. Brooks, James DiFrisco and William C. Wimsatt
Edited by Daniel S. Brooks, James DiFrisco and William C. Wimsatt
Edited by Daniel S. Brooks, James DiFrisco and William C. Wimsatt
Edited by Daniel S. Brooks, James DiFrisco and William C. Wimsatt
Part of Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology
Part of Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology
Category: Science & Technology
Category: Science & Technology
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$60.00
Aug 24, 2021 | ISBN 9780262045339
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Aug 24, 2021 | ISBN 9780262362252
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Table Of Contents
Preface
Introduction: Levels of Organization: The Architecture of the Scientific Image
1: Levels, Robustness, Emergence, and Heterogeneous Dynamics: Finding Partial Organization in Causal Thickets
2: Levels of Organization as Tool and Doctrine in Biology
3: Our World Isn’t Organized into Levels
4: Levels, Nests and Branches: Compositional Organization and Downward Causation in Biology
5: Levels, Perspectives and Thickets: Toward an Ontology of Complex Scaffolded Living Systems
6: Integrating composition and process in levels of developmental evolution
7: Manipulating Levels of Organization
8: The Origin of New Levels of Organization
9: Downward Causation and Levels
10: Cancer beyond genetics: On the practical implications of downward causation
11: Multiscale Modeling in Inactive and Active Materials
12: Using Compositional Explanations to Understand Compositional Levels: An Integrative Account
13: Functional Kinds and the Metaphysics of Functional Levels: In What Sense Are Functionally Defined Kinds and Levels Non-Arbitrary?
14: Control Hierarchies: Pattee’s Approach to Function and Control as Time-Dependent Constraints
15: Phenomenological Levels in Biological and Cultural Evolution
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