This fine collection of essays by a leading philosopher of science presents a defence of integrative pluralism as the best description for the complexity of scientific inquiry today. The tendency of some scientists to unify science by reducing all theories to a few fundamental laws of the most basic particles that populate our universe is ill-suited to the biological sciences, which study multi-component, multi-level, evolved complex systems. This integrative pluralism is the most efficient way to understand the different and complex processes - historical and interactive - that generate biological phenomena. This book will be of interest to students and professionals in the philosophy of science.
| ISBN: | 9780521817530 |
| Publication date: | 15th September 2003 |
| Author: | Sandra D University of Pittsburgh Mitchell |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 262 pages |
| Series: | Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology |
| Genres: |
Philosophy of science Biology, life sciences |