Philosophy of Biology
By P. Kitcher. 2007
410 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: History and Philosophy of Science
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- Explanation in Biology: Reduction, Pluralism, and Explanatory Aims (2011, neutral): “…explanatory aim (Brigandt 2009, 2011b). relations among formal statements.6 It is precisely for operating on a different level than representations that explanatory aims are of particular philosophical importance, as they account for the dynamics of science (Brigandt 2010b, 2011b, forthcoming).”
- From Big Data to Precision Medicine (2019, background): “Such ideas have informed the development of “systems biology,” in which we aim to arrive at mechanistic explanations for higher biological functions in terms of the “parts” of the biological machine (6).”
- High-K Strategy Scale: A Measure of the High-K Independent Criterion of Fitness (2006, background): “Definitions of fitness generally center on two dimensions: One is the resultant biological fitness, operationalized through reproductive success, or number of offspring, (e.g., Fagerstrom, 1992; Fisher, 1958; Rosenberg, 1983; Sober, 1993), while the other one is the independent criterion, largely re”
- Designatable Units for Status Assessment of Endangered Species (2005, background): “This discord has its roots in the same philosophical and interpretative dilemmas that plague the scientific definition of species (Ereshefsky 1991; Sober 1993; Hey 2002), which is a problem afflicted by a scourge of competing concepts, each of which emphasizes a different aspect of the nature of…”
- The Return of the Organism as a Fundamental Explanatory Concept in Biology (2014, background): “…and more generally how they differ from inanimate systems like machines), which had practically defined the philosophy of biology in the first half of the twentieth century (e.g. Johnstone 1914; Needham 1928; Woodger 1929; Haldane 1931; Bertalanffy 1952), were dismissed as too metaphysical.”
- Technological pre-adaptation, speciation, and emergence of new technologies: how Corning invented and developed fiber optics (2006, background): “Several studies (e.g., Methe et al., 1997; Rosenbloom, 2000; Ahuja and Lampert, 2001) have shown how incumbents adapt, survive, and even regain historic performance levels in markets shaken by the arrival of radical technological innovations (Hill and Rothaermel, 2003: 257).”