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题名/责任者:

Philosophical perspectives on the engineering approach in biology : Living machines? / edited by Sune Holm and Maria Serban.

版本说明:

First edition.

出版发行项:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2021.

ISBN:

9780815380788

ISBN:

9780367491468

载体形态项:

vi, 208 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

丛编说明:

History and philosophy of biology

附加个人名称:

Holm, Sune, editor.

论题主题:

Biology-Philosophy.

论题主题:

Bioengineering-Moral and ethical aspects.

论题主题:

Bioethics.

中图法分类号:

Q-02

书目附注:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

摘要附注:

"Philosophical perspectives on the engineering approach in biology provides a philosophical examination of what has been called the most powerful metaphor in biology : The machine metaphor. The chapters collected in this volume discuss the idea that living systems can be understood through the lens of engineering methods and machine metaphors from both historical, theoretical, and practical perspectives. In their contributions the authors examine questions about scientific explanation and methodology, the interrelationship between science and engineering, and the impact that the use of engineering metaphors in science may have for bioethics and science communication, such as the worry that its wide application reinforces public misconceptions of the nature of new biotechnology and biological life. The book also contains an introduction that describes the rise of the machine analogy and the many ways in which it plays a central role in fundamental debates about e.g. design, adaptation and reductionism in the philosophy of biology. The book will be useful as a core reading to professionals as well as graduate and undergraduate students in courses of philosophy of science and for life scientists taking courses in philosophy of science and bioethics"--

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