Levels of organization in the biological sciences / edited by Daniel S. Brooks, James DiFrisco, and William C. Wimsatt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brooks, Daniel S., editor.

DiFrisco, James, editor.

Wimsatt, William C., editor.

Series:

Vienna series in theoretical biology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biology--Philosophy.

Biology.

Biological systems.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, 2021.

Summary:

"This book addresses basic and advanced questions surrounding the idea of levels or organization in the biological sciences"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Levels of Organization: The Architecture of the Scientific Image1. Levels, Robustness, Emergence, and Heterogeneous Dynamics: Finding Partial Organization in Causal Thickets2. Levels of Organization as Tool and Doctrine in Biology3. Our World Isn't Organized into Levels4. Levels, Nests, and Branches: Compositional Organization and Downward Causation in Biology5. Levels, Perspectives, and Thickets: Toward an Ontology of Complex Scaffolded Living Systems6. Integrating Composition and Process in Levels of Developmental Evolution7. Manipulating Levels of Organization8. The Origin of New Levels of Organization9. Downward Causation and Levels10. Cancer beyond Genetics: On the Practical Implications of Downward Causation11. Multiscale Modeling in Inactive and Active Materials12. Using Compositional Explanations to Understand Compositional Levels: An Integrative Account13. Functional Kinds and the Metaphysics of Functional Levels: In What Sense Are Functionally Defined Kinds and Levels Nonarbitrary?14. Control Hierarchies: Pattee's Approach to Function and Control as Time-Dependent Constraints15. Phenomenological Levels in Biological and Cultural Evolution

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-36619-3

OCLC:

1256666261