Instrumental Biology, or the Disunity of Science (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations) - Softcover

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Rosenberg, Alexander

 
9780226727264: Instrumental Biology, or the Disunity of Science (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations)
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ISBN 10: 0226727262 ISBN 13: 9780226727264
Verlag: UNIV OF CHICAGO PR, 1994

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Do the sciences aim to uncover the structure of nature, or are they ultimately a practical means of controlling our environment?

In Instrumental Biology, or the Disunity of Science, Alexander Rosenberg argues that while physics and chemistry can develop laws that reveal the structure of natural phenomena, biology is fated to be a practical, instrumental discipline. Because of the complexity produced by natural selection, and because of the limits on human cognition, scientists are prevented from uncovering the basic structure of biological phenomena. Consequently, biology and all of the disciplines that rest upon it--psychology and the other human sciences--must aim at most to provide practical tools for coping with the natural world rather than a complete theoretical understanding of it.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Alex Rosenberg is the R. Taylor Cole Professor of Philosophy and Biology at Duke University and the author of many books, including Economics--Mathematical Politics or Science of Diminishing Returns? and Instrumental Biology, or The Disunity of Science, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

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UNIV OF CHICAGO PR
Erscheinungsdatum
1994
Sprache
Englisch
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0226727262
ISBN 13 
9780226727264
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204
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