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The Explanatory Autonomy of the Biological Sciences




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Genere:Libro
Lingua: Inglese
Editore:

Routledge

Pubblicazione: 12/2021
Edizione: 1° edizione





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This book argues for the explanatory autonomy of the biological sciences. It does so by showing that scientific explanations in the biological sciences cannot be reduced to explanations in the fundamental sciences such as physics and chemistry and by demonstrating that biological explanations are advanced by models rather than laws of nature. To maintain the explanatory autonomy of the biological sciences, the author argues against explanatory reductionism and shows that explanation in the biological sciences can be achieved without reduction. Then, he demonstrates that the biological sciences do not have laws of nature. Instead of laws, he suggests that biological models usually do the explanatory work. To understand how a biological model can explain phenomena in the world, the author proposes an inferential account of model explanation. The basic idea of this account is that, for a model to be explanatory, it must answer two kinds of questions: counterfactual-dependence questions that concern the model itself and hypothetical questions that concern the relationship between the model and its target system. The reason a biological model can answer these two kinds of questions is due to the fact that a model is a structure, and the holistic relationship between the model and its target warrants the hypothetical inference from the model to its target and thus helps to answer the second kind of question. The Explanatory Autonomy of the Biological Sciences will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working in philosophy of science, philosophy of biology and metaphysics.




Sommario

1. Introduction 2. Multiple Realization and Reductionism 3. Explanation in Biology: Context Dependence, Extra Information, and Pragmatics 4. Are Laws the Only Things That Matter? 5. Models That Matter: The Similarity View 6. A Holistic View of the Model-World Relationship 7. How Biological Models are Explanatory 8. Conclusion




Autore

Wei Fang is Associate Professor in the Research Centre for Philosophy of Science and Technology, Shanxi University, China. His research topics include scientific explanation, models and modeling, causal modeling, mechanisms, among others, and has published a number of papers in, among others,Philosophy of Science, Biology & Philosophy, and Synthese.










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ISBN:

9780367693510

Condizione: Nuovo
Collana: Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science
Dimensioni: 9 x 6 in Ø 1.00 lb
Formato: Copertina rigida
Illustration Notes:16 b/w images and 16 line drawings
Pagine Arabe: 186
Pagine Romane: x


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