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紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
杜威分類號:	570.1
書名/作者:	Reductive explanation in the biological sciences/ by Marie I. Kaiser.
作者:	Kaiser, Marie I.
出版者:	Cham : : Springer International Publishing :, 2015.
面頁冊數:	xi, 277 p. : : ill. (some col.), digital ;; 24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
標題:	Biology - Philosophy.
標題:	Reductionism.
標題:	Philosophy.
標題:	Philosophy of Science.
ISBN:	9783319253107
ISBN:	9783319253084
內容註:	Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Meta-philosophical Preliminaries -- Chapter 3 Drawing Lessons from the Previous Debate -- Chapter 4 Two Perspectives on Explanatory Reduction -- Chapter 5 A Closer Look at Biological Explanations -- Chapter 6 The Ontic Account of Explanatory Reduction -- Chapter 7 Conclusion -- References.
摘要、提要註:	This book develops a philosophical account that reveals the major characteristics that make an explanation in the life sciences reductive and distinguish them from non-reductive explanations. Understanding what reductive explanations are enables one to assess the conditions under which reductive explanations are adequate and thus enhances debates about explanatory reductionism. The account of reductive explanation presented in this book has three major characteristics. First, it emerges from a critical reconstruction of the explanatory practice of the life sciences itself. Second, the account is monistic since it specifies one set of criteria that apply to explanations in the life sciences in general. Finally, the account is ontic in that it traces the reductivity of an explanation back to certain relations that exist between objects in the world (such as part-whole relations and level relations), rather than to the logical relations between sentences. Beginning with a disclosure of the meta-philosophical assumptions that underlie the author's analysis of reductive explanation, the book leads into the debate about reduction(ism) in the philosophy of biology and continues with a discussion on the two perspectives on explanatory reduction that have been proposed in the philosophy of biology so far. The author scrutinizes how the issue of reduction becomes entangled with explanation and analyzes two concepts, the concept of a biological part and the concept of a level of organization. The results of these five chapters constitute the ground on which the author bases her final chapter, developing her ontic account of reductive explanation.
電子資源:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25310-7

Reductive explanation in the biological sciences[electronic resource] /
Kaiser, Marie I.

Reductive explanation in the biological sciences[electronic resource] /by Marie I. Kaiser. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2015. - xi, 277 p. :ill. (some col.), digital ;24 cm. - History, philosophy and theory of the life sciences,v.162211-1948 ;. - History, philosophy and theory of the life sciences ;v.7..

Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Meta-philosophical Preliminaries -- Chapter 3 Drawing Lessons from the Previous Debate -- Chapter 4 Two Perspectives on Explanatory Reduction -- Chapter 5 A Closer Look at Biological Explanations -- Chapter 6 The Ontic Account of Explanatory Reduction -- Chapter 7 Conclusion -- References.

This book develops a philosophical account that reveals the major characteristics that make an explanation in the life sciences reductive and distinguish them from non-reductive explanations. Understanding what reductive explanations are enables one to assess the conditions under which reductive explanations are adequate and thus enhances debates about explanatory reductionism. The account of reductive explanation presented in this book has three major characteristics. First, it emerges from a critical reconstruction of the explanatory practice of the life sciences itself. Second, the account is monistic since it specifies one set of criteria that apply to explanations in the life sciences in general. Finally, the account is ontic in that it traces the reductivity of an explanation back to certain relations that exist between objects in the world (such as part-whole relations and level relations), rather than to the logical relations between sentences. Beginning with a disclosure of the meta-philosophical assumptions that underlie the author's analysis of reductive explanation, the book leads into the debate about reduction(ism) in the philosophy of biology and continues with a discussion on the two perspectives on explanatory reduction that have been proposed in the philosophy of biology so far. The author scrutinizes how the issue of reduction becomes entangled with explanation and analyzes two concepts, the concept of a biological part and the concept of a level of organization. The results of these five chapters constitute the ground on which the author bases her final chapter, developing her ontic account of reductive explanation.

ISBN: 9783319253107

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-25310-7doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

417295
Biology
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LC Class. No.: QH331

Dewey Class. No.: 570.1

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