The limitations of Kim's reductive physicalism in accounting for living systems and an alternative nonreductionist ontology

Acta Biotheoretica

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 243-267

  Perovic, Slobodan ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Causation; Emergence; Metabolic control; Morphogenesis; Nonseparability; Ontology; Overdetermination; Reductionism

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; HUMAN; PHILOSOPHY; PHYSICS; PHYSIOLOGY; THINKING;

BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHILOSOPHY; PHYSICS; THINKING;

EID: 36749072023     PISSN: 00015342     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10441-007-9014-9     Document Type: Article

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