Philosophical Perspectives on the Engineering Approach in Biology

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  • Philosophical Perspectives on the Engineering Approach in Biology Book Detail

  • Author : Sune Holm
  • Release Date : 2020-06-07
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Genre : Philosophy
  • Pages : 313
  • ISBN 13 : 1351212222
  • File Size : 67,67 MB
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Philosophical Perspectives on the Engineering Approach in Biology by Sune Holm PDF Summary

Book Description: Philosophical Perspectives on the Engineering Approach in Biology provides a philosophical examination of what has been called the most powerful metaphor in biology: The machine metaphor. The chapters collected in this volume discuss the idea that living systems can be understood through the lens of engineering methods and machine metaphors from both historical, theoretical, and practical perspectives. In their contributions the authors examine questions about scientific explanation and methodology, the interrelationship between science and engineering, and the impact that the use of engineering metaphors in science may have for bioethics and science communication, such as the worry that its wide application reinforces public misconceptions of the nature of new biotechnology and biological life. The book also contains an introduction that describes the rise of the machine analogy and the many ways in which it plays a central role in fundamental debates about e.g. design, adaptation, and reductionism in the philosophy of biology. The book will be useful as a core reading for professionals as well as graduate and undergraduate students in courses of philosophy of science and for life scientists taking courses in philosophy of science and bioethics.

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