Aggregate, composed, and evolved systems: Reductionistic heuristics as means to more holistic theories

Biology and Philosophy

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 667-702

  Wimsatt, William C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregativity; Complexity; Decomposability; Functional localization fallacies; Heuristics; Intersubstitutability; Invariance; Mechanism; Nothing but ism; Reductionism; Richard Levins

Indexed keywords

DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; HEURISTICS; HOLISTIC APPROACH; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 33847187366     PISSN: 01693867     EISSN: 15728404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10539-006-9059-1     Document Type: Article

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