Promises and Limits of Reductionism in the Biomedical Sciences

ISBN 10: 0471498505 / ISBN 13: 9780471498506

Editore: John Wiley & Sons, 2002

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• Titolo: Promises and Limits of Reductionism in the Biomedical Sciences
• Editore: John Wiley & Sons
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0471498505
• ISBN 13: 9780471498506
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Condizione: New

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Riassunto

- Anthologie mit Beiträgen aus dem Grenzgebiet zwischen Naturwissenschaft und Philosophie
- diskutiert werden folgende Bereiche:
- Reduktionismus im Rahmen der traditionellen Philosophie (Hull, Rosenberg, Griesemer und Sarkar)
- Vor- und Nachteile des Reduktionismus in bestimmten Gebieten der Naturwissenschaften (Williams, Debru, Morange, Van Reganmortal)
- Reduktionismus in der medizinischen Praxis (Lloyd, Tauber, Schaffner)

Informazioni sull?autore

David L. Hull has been teaching philosophy of biology for almost forty years. He received his PhD from the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University and has taught at the University of Wisconisn-Milwuaukee and Northwestern University. He has published a dozen books and anthologies and over a hundred papers. He is past president of the Philosophy of Science Association, The Society for Systematic Zoology and the International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Marc Van Regenmortel was for 20 years Director of the Immunochemistry Laboratory at the CNRS Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, in Strasbourg, France. Educated in Brussels, Belgium, he received his PhD degree (1961) in Virology from the University of Cape Town, South Africa and held professorship appointments at several Universities in South Africa and France. The author or editor of 14 books in virology and immunochemistry, he has published over 350 scientific papers and reviews. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Molecular Recognition and of Archives of Virology, an Executive Editor of Analytical Biochemistry and serves on the editorial boards of seven other journals. He was for nine years (1990-1999) Secretary General of the International Union of Microbiological Societies and for three years (1987-1990) Chairman of its Virology Division. He is since 1996 the President of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses.