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• 020 __ |a 9780367707880 |q (paperback)

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• 100 1_ |a Fang, Wei |c (Associate Professor), |e author.

• 245 14 |a The explanatory autonomy of the biological sciences / |c Wei Fang.

• 260 __ |a New York : |b Taylor & Francis, |c 2022.

• 300 __ |a x, 186 pages : |b illustrations ; |c 24 cm.

• 336 __ |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent

• 337 __ |a unmediated |b n |2 rdamedia

• 338 __ |a volume |b nc |2 rdacarrier

• 490 0_ |a Routledge studies in the philosophy of science

• 504 __ |a Includes bibliographical references (pages [163]-184) and index.

• 520 __ |a "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"-- |c Provided by publisher.

• 650 _0 |a Biology |x Philosophy.

• 650 _0 |a Autonomy (Philosophy)