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"Exploring what a scientific metaphysics grounded in biological practices could look like and how it might impact the way we investigate the world around us, the contributors to From Biological Practice to Scientific Metaphysics review and discuss long-held objections to metaphysics by natural...
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University of Minnesota Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Minneapolis, MN : |
| Publication Dates: | [2023] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science ;
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| Summary: |
"Exploring what a scientific metaphysics grounded in biological practices could look like and how it might impact the way we investigate the world around us, the contributors to From Biological Practice to Scientific Metaphysics review and discuss long-held objections to metaphysics by natural scientists. They illuminate how, in order to learn about the world as it truly is, we must look not only at what scientists say but also what they do"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xlvi, 284 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781517916718 1517916712 9781517916701 1517916704 |
| Index Number: | BD111 |
| CLC: | B081.1-03 |
| Call Number: | B081.1-03/F931 |
| Contents: |
Toward a scientific metaphysics based on biological practice / Evolution and the metabolism of error : biological practice as foundation for a scientific metaphysics / How to infer metaphysics from scientific practice as a biologist might / What was Carnap rejecting when he rejected metaphysics? / Ideal observations : information and causation in biological practice / Individual-level mechanisms in ecology and evolution / Just how messy is the world? / The reduction of classical experimental embryology to molecular developmental biology : a tale of three sciences / Explanation in contexts of causal complexity : lessons from psychiatric genetics / The grounded functionality account of natural kinds / |