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Author:   Pierre-Alain Braillard ,  Christophe Malaterre
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   2015 ed.
Volume:   11
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   7.863kg
ISBN:  

9789401798211

ISBN 10:   9401798214
Pages:   438
Publication Date:   25 June 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1. “Explanation in Biology: An Introduction”.- PART I – EXPLORING EXPLANATORY PLURALISM IN BIOLOGY.- Chapter 2. “Is There an Explanation for the Diversity of Explanations in Biological Sciences?”.- Chapter 3. “Explanation in Systems Biology: Is It All About Mechanisms?”.- Chapter 4. “Historical Contingency and the Explanation of Evolutionary Trends”.- Chapter 5. “Developmental Noise: Explaining the Specific Heterogeneity of Individual Organisms”.- PART II – MECHANISTIC EXPLANATION: APPLICATIONS AND EMENDATIONS.- Chapter 6. “Explaining in Contemporary Molecular Biology: Beyond Mechanisms”.- Chapter 7. “Evolutionary Developmental Biology and the Limits of Philosophical Accounts of Mechanistic Explanation”.- Chapter 8. “The Relevance of Irrelevance: Explanation in Systems Biology”.- Chapter 9. “Graph-Theoretic Perspectives on Dynamic Mechanistic Explanation”.- PART III – THE ROLE OF MATHEMATICS IN BIOLOGICAL EXPLANATIONS.- Chapter 10. “Mathematical Explanation in Biology”.- Chapter 11. “Explanation and Organizing Principles in Systems Biology”.- Chapter 12. “Are dynamic mechanistic explanations still mechanistic?”.- PART IV – THE ROLE OF HEURISTICS IN BIOLOGICAL EXPLANATIONS.- Chapter 13. “Heuristics, Descriptions, and the Scope of Mechanistic Explanation”.- Chapter 14. “Prospect and Limits of Explaining Biological Systems in Engineering Terms”.- Chapter 15. “From Mechanisms to Mathematical Models and Back to Mechanisms: Quantitative Mechanistic Explanations”.- PART V – NEW THEORIES OF EXPLANATION IN BIOLOGY AND ELSEWHERE.- Chapter 16. “Biological Explanations as Cursory Covering Law Explanations”.- Chapter 17. “Explaining Cell Development: Stem Cells and Reprogramming”.- Chapter 18. “Explaining Causal Selection with Explanatory Causal Economy : Biology and Beyond”.

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Explanation in biology is a venture into the diversity of explanatory patterns in biology, which also explores the scope and limitations of mechanistic explanations. Explanation in biology takes many important steps in this direction, and I expect this volume to set the stage for many future discussions of what it means to explain and understand biological systems in the 21st century. (Sara Green, Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, March, 2016)

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