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题名/责任者:

In search of mechanisms : discoveries across the life sciences / Carl F. Craver and Lindley Darden.

出版发行项:

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2013]

ISBN:

9780226039657 (cloth : alkaline paper)

ISBN:

022603965X (cloth : alkaline paper)

ISBN:

9780226039794 (paperback : alkaline paper)

ISBN:

022603979X (paperback : alkaline paper)

载体形态项:

xxii, 228 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

个人责任者:

Craver, Carl F., author.

附加个人名称:

Darden, Lindley, author.

论题主题:

Mechanism (Philosophy)

论题主题:

Biology-Philosophy-History.

中图法分类号:

Q-0

书目附注:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-218) and index.

摘要附注:

With In Search of Mechanisms, Carl F. Craver and Lindley Darden offer both a descriptive and an instructional account of how biologists discover mechanisms. Drawing on examples from across the life sciences and through the centuries, Craver and Darden compile an impressive toolbox of strategies that biologists have used and will use again to reveal the mechanisms that produce, underlie, or maintain the phenomena characteristic of living things. They discuss the questions that figure in the search for mechanisms, characterizing the experimental, observational, and conceptual considerations used to answer them, all the while providing examples from the history of biology to highlight the kinds of evidence and reasoning strategies employed to assess mechanisms. At a deeper level, Craver and Darden pose a systematic view of what biology is, of how biology makes progress, of how biological discoveries are and might be made, and of why knowledge of biological mechanisms is important for the future of the human species. --

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