Studies in the Philosophy of Biology: Reduction and Related Problems : [papers Presented at a Conference on Problems of Reduction in Biology Held in Villa Serbe, Bellagio, Italy 9-16 September 1972

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Should the philosophy of biology deal with organismic, or with molecular aspects , or with both ? We are, of course, not the first to appreciate the ...

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Discussion of Rensch.Dudley Shapere
Studies in the Philosophy of Biology: Reduction and Related Problems : [papers Presented at a Conference on Problems of Reduction in Biology Held in Villa Serbe, Bellagio, Italy 9-16 September 1972.Francisco Jose Ayala & Theodosius Dobzhansky (eds.)
The scientific reduction.K. R. Popper
the Essential Incompleteness of All Science,".Kari R. Popper & Scientific Reduction
From Aristotle to Democritus via Darwin.  (pages 3--19)Giuseppe Montalenti
The problem of molecular recognition by a selective system.  (pages 45--46)Gerald M. Edelman
A geometric model of reduction and emergence.  (pages 57--63)Peter Medawar
Cerebral activity and consciousness.  (pages 87)John C. Eccles
Unjustified variation and selective retention in scientific discovery.  (pages 139--161)Donald T. Campbell
Unjustified variation and retention in scientific discovery.  (pages 141--161)T. C. Donald
Reduction, Hierarchies, and Organism.  (pages 163--76)Morton Beckner
Downward causation.  (pages 179--186)Donald T. Campbell
Problems of rationality in biology.  (pages 205--224)Henryk Skolimowski
Chance, necessity and purpose.  (pages 225--239)Charles Birch
The biological concept of progress.  (pages 339--354)F. J. Ayala
Studies in the philosophy of biology: reduction and related problems.Francisco Jose Ayala & Theodosius Dobzhansky

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