Reasoning in biological discoveries : essays on mechanisms, interfield relations, and anomaly resolution /
Reasoning in Biological Discoveries brings together a series of essays, which focus on one of the most heavily debated topics of scientific discovery. Collected together and richly illustrated, Darden's essays represent a groundbreaking foray into one of the major problems facing scientists and...
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Cambridge :
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2006.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in philosophy and biology.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
