| Main Title |
Reasoning in biological discoveries : essays on mechanisms, interfield relations, and anomaly resolution / |
| Author |
Darden, Lindley.
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| Publisher |
Cambridge University Press, |
| Year Published |
2006 |
| OCLC Number |
63125822 |
| ISBN |
0521858879 (hardback); 9780521858878 |
| Subjects |
Biology--Philosophy ;
Mechanism (Philosophy)
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| Internet Access |
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| Holdings |
| Library |
Call Number |
Additional Info |
Location |
Last
Modified |
Checkout
Status |
| ELBM |
QH331.D26 2006 |
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AWBERC Library/Cincinnati,OH |
01/04/2010 |
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| Collation |
xxiv, 346 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-335) and index. |
| Contents Notes |
Thinking about mechanisms /with Peter Machamer and Carl F. Craver -- Discovering mechanisma in neurobiology: the case of spatial memory / with Carl F. Craver -- Strategies in the interfield discovery of the mechanism of protein synthesis /with Carl F. craver -- Relationsamong fields: mendelian, cytological, and molecular mechanisms -- Interfield theories /with Nancy Maull -- Theory construction in genetics / Relations among fields in the evolutionary synthesis / Selction type theories / with Joseph A. Cain -- Strategies for anaomaly resolution: diagnosis and redesign -- Exemplars, abstractions and anaomalies: representations and theory change in mendelian and molecular genetics -- Strategies for anaomaly resolution in the case of adaptive mutation -- Strategies for discovering mechanisms: construction, evaluation, revision. |
