ENGLISH

Foundations of Biophilosophy

By Mario Bunge (auth.) , Martin Mahner

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
1997
ISBN
978-3-642-08276-4, 978-3-662-03368-5
DOI
10.1007/978-3-662-03368-5
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
19 MB (19906488 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
427\434
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-08-01 04:00:00
general; Biomedicine general; PhilosophyLife Sciences

Description

Over the past three decades, the philosophy of biology has emerged from the shadow of the philosophy of physics to become a respectable and thriving philosophical subdiscipline. In their book, the authors take a fresh look at the life sciences and their philosophy from a strictly realist and emergentist-naturalist perspective. They outline a unified and science-oriented philosophical framework that enables them to clarify many foundational and philosophical issues in biology. Thus, this book should be of interest to both life scientists and philosophers and is suitable as a textbook for courses at the advanced levels as well as for independent study.

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