Emergent properties and the context objection to reduction

Biology and Philosophy

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 715-734

  Delehanty, Megan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Context; Dictyostelium discoideum; Emergence; Mechanism; Reduction

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; PHILOSOPHY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM;

EID: 33644623599     PISSN: 01693867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10539-004-2437-7     Document Type: Article

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