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Philosophical Perspectives on the Engineering Approach in Biology
- Living Machines?
Engelsk
Bogcover for Philosophical Perspectives on the Engineering Approach in Biology af , 9780367491468
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
216
ISBN-13:
9780367491468
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
036749146X
Udg. Dato:
1 feb 2022
Størrelse i cm:
23,4 x 15,6
Oplagsdato:
1 feb 2022

Philosophical Perspectives on the Engineering Approach in Biology

- Living Machines?
Engelsk
Paperback 2022
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Philosophical Perspectives on the Engineering Approach in Biology provides a philosophical examination of what has been called the most powerful metaphor in biology: The machine metaphor. The chapters collected in this volume discuss the idea that living systems can be understood through the lens of engineering methods and machine metaphors from both historical, theoretical, and practical perspectives.

In their contributions the authors examine questions about scientific explanation and methodology, the interrelationship between science and engineering, and the impact that the use of engineering metaphors in science may have for bioethics and science communication, such as the worry that its wide application reinforces public misconceptions of the nature of new biotechnology and biological life. The book also contains an introduction that describes the rise of the machine analogy and the many ways in which it plays a central role in fundamental debates about e.g. design, adaptation, and reductionism in the philosophy of biology.

The book will be useful as a core reading for professionals as well as graduate and undergraduate students in courses of philosophy of science and for life scientists taking courses in philosophy of science and bioethics.

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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
216
ISBN-13:
9780367491468
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
036749146X
Udg. Dato:
1 feb 2022
Størrelse i cm:
23,4 x 15,6
Oplagsdato:
1 feb 2022
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