Biology, philosophy

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Kauffman, S. Logan, T. K. Este, R. Goebel, R. Hobill, D. Shmulevich, I., Propagating organization An enquiry. Biology Philosophy 2007, In Press. 

Penny D An interpretive review of the origin of life research. Biology Philosophy 2005, 20(4) 633-671. 

The options themselves invoke different controls and philosophies. The main techniques may be categorized according to whether they deal with the nutrients directly, or whether they interfere with the physical growth environment, or whether they invoke some form of biological remediation. 

Phillips of the BHR Group, UK, provides a compact definition of process intensification, saying it is ... a design philosophy whereby the fluid dynamics in a process are matched to its chemical, biological and/or physical requirements,. .. [27]. In this way, significant benefits are gained, those listed above. 

Sober, E., 1993, Philosophy of Biology, Westview Press, Boulder, CO, USA. 

And showing his critical understanding of both biology and philosophy, Ansell Pearson (1997, p. 134) continues ... 

Matters used to be clearer, as a bit of the history of philosophy of biology will show. 

Hull, D. (1974), The Philosophy of Biological Science, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ. 

Hull, D. and Ruse, M. (1998), Philosophy of Biology, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. 

Alex Rosenberg I plead guilty to this oversimplification of the intellectual landscape. And I plead guilty because with the exception of the present company, perhaps, it seems to me that in the philosophy of biology the consensus view is physicalist antireductionism. We re all physicalists now, but as a methodology reductionism won t work. Now, evidently you, among perhaps some others, reject physicalism. 

Hull, D. L. (1972), Reduction in genetics - biology or philosophy , Philosophy of Science, 39,... 

Monod, J. (1971), Chance and Necessity An Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modem Biology, Knopf, New York. 

Sarkar, S. (1989), Reductlonlsm and Molecular Biology A Reappraisal, PhD Dissertation, Department of Philosophy, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. 

Sarkar, S. (1996a), Biological information a skeptical look at some central dogmas of molecular biology , in S. Sarkar (Ed.), The Philosophy and History of Molecular Biology New Perspectives, Kluwer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, pp. 187-231... 

Sarkar, S. (1999), From (tie Reaklionsnorm to the adaptive norm the norm of reaction, 1909- I960 , Biology and Philosophy, 14, 235-252. 

Griesemer, J. R. and Wade, M. J. (2000), Populational heritability extending punnett square concepts to evolution at the metapopulation level , Biology and Philosophy, 15, 1 - 17. 

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