It Is Not Possible to Reduce Biological Explanations to Explanations in Chemistry and/or Physics

Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Biology

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 32-47

  Dupré, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

"anti reductionist consensus" in philosophy of biology; All intrinsic properties of the thing reducible to properties of the parts; Central dogma of molecular biology; Complex relations in biology; Cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator gene; Possible to reduce biological explanations; Question of reducibility of biological and intuitions about causation; Question of reductionism derived from laws of physics; Reductionist principle; Relations between dispositions to behavior

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EID: 84873526298     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444314922.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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