This paper argues that the consensus physicalist antireductionism in the philosophy of biology cannot accommodate the research strategy or indeed the recent findings of molecular developmental biology. After describing Wolpert’s programmatic claims on its behalf, and recent work by Gehring and others to identify the molecular determinants of development, the paper attempts to identify the relat...

Extended review of: Processes of Life: Essays in the philosophy of biology John Dupré, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2012, pp. 350, Price £30.00, CA$57.00, US$55.00, Hardback, ISBN-13: 9780199691982

Abstract In this paper, we bring together the concepts of affordance from ecological psychology and function organizational approach to philosophy biology into a single integrative framework. This integration allows us account for biological basis notion affordance, offering theoretical tools address normative interrelations between organisms their environments.

Galileo is reported to have stated, "Measure what is measurable and make measurable what is not so." My group's trajectory in cell biology has closely followed this philosophy, although it took some searching to find this path.

A general method is provided whereby bizarre revisions of consistent theories with respect to contingent sentences that they refute can be delivered by revision-functions satisfying both the basic and the supplementary postulates of the y4GM-theory of theory-revision. ?

SpringerBriefs in Philosophy of Science will consist of original works in the philosophy of science that present new research results or techniques that are of broad instructional significance at the graduate and advanced undergraduate levels. Topics covered will include (but not be limited to): Formal epistemology Cognitive foundations of science Metaphysics of models, laws, and theories Philo...

Science and philosophy have a very long history, dating back at least to the 16th and 17th centuries, when the first scientist-philosophers, such as Bacon, Galilei, and Newton, were beginning the process of turning natural philosophy into science. Contemporary relationships between the two fields are still to some extent marked by the distrust that maintains the divide between the so-called "tw...

Investigating the Fate of Pre-neoplastic Cells in a Mouse Model of Medulloblastoma by Jessica Dawn Kessler Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology Duke University Date:_______________________ Approved: ___________________________ Robert J. Wechsler-Reya, Ph.D. Supervisor ___________________________ Dennis Thiele, Ph.D. ___________________________ Fan Wang, Ph.D. __________________________...