| dc.contributor.author | Dupré, John | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-01-10T11:41:51Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2009-12-14 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This collection of specially commissioned essays puts top scholars head to head to debate the central issues in the lively and fast growing field of philosophy of biology Brings together original essays on ten of the most hotly debated ... This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction: No Need for Special Biological Laws? The Reductionist Principle Strong Emergence Complex Relations in Biology A Misinformed Slogan and Its Contributions Genes Causation Systems Biology Metaphysical Coda Postscript: Counterpoint Acknowledgments Notes References | en_GB |
| dc.identifier.citation | Chapter No. 2, pp. 32 - 47 | en_GB |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1002/9781444314922.ch2 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/14366 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
| dc.publisher | Wiley-Blackwell | en_GB |
| dc.subject | complex systems | en_GB |
| dc.subject | emergence | en_GB |
| dc.subject | causation | en_GB |
| dc.subject | reductionism | en_GB |
| dc.title | It is Not Possible to Reduce Biological Explanations to Explanations in Chemistry and/or Physics | en_GB |
| dc.type | Book chapter | en_GB |
| dc.date.available | 2014-01-10T11:41:51Z | |
| dc.contributor.editor | Ayala, FJ | |
| dc.contributor.editor | Arp, R | |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 1405159987 | |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 9781405159982 | |
| dc.relation.isPartOf | Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Biology | |
| dc.description | Chapter from Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Biology edited by Francisco J. Ayala and Robert Arp | en_GB |
| dc.relation.isPartOfSeries | Contemporary Debates in Philosophy | |
