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paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages have occasional markings in pen. Discovering Complexity: Decomposition and Localization as Strategies in Scientific Research by William Bechtel and Robert C. Richardson.An important work in the philosophy of science examining how scientists develop mechanistic explanations of complex biological systems. Bechtel and Richardson focus on two major research strategies?decomposition, breaking complex systems into functional and structural components, and localization, assigning particular functions to particular structures.Using historical examples from cell biology, genetics, biochemistry, cognitive neuroscience and related life sciences, the authors examine both the usefulness and limitations of these approaches and how different methodological choices can produce competing scientific models.Originally published by Princeton University Press in 1993, this 2010 MIT Press edition includes a substantive new introduction addressing developments in the philosophy and science of mechanistic explanation since the original publication.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. An analysis of two heuristic strategies for the development of mechanistic models, illustrated with historical examples from the life sciences.In Discovering Complexity, William Bechtel and Robert Richardson examine two heuristics that guided the development of mechanistic models in the life sciences- decomposition and localization. Drawing on historical cases from disciplines including cell biology, cognitive neuroscience, and genetics, they identify a number of "choice points" that life scientists confront in developing mechanistic explanations and show how different choices result in divergent explanatory models. Describing decomposition as the attempt to differentiate functional and structural components of a system and localization as the assignment of responsibility for specific functions to specific structures, Bechtel and Richardson examine the usefulness of these heuristics as well as their fallibility-the sometimes false assumption underlying them that nature is significantly decomposable and hierarchically organized.When Discovering Complexity was originally published in 1993, few philosophers of science perceived the centrality of seeking mechanisms to explain phenomena in biology, relying instead on the model of nomological explanation advanced by the logical positivists (a model Bechtel and Richardson found to be utterly inapplicable to the examples from the life sciences in their study). Since then, mechanism and mechanistic explanation have become widely discussed. In a substantive new introduction to this MIT Press edition of their book, Bechtel and Richardson examine both philosophical and scientific developments in research on mechanistic models since 1993. An analysis of two heuristic strategies for the development of mechanistic models, illustrated with historical examples from the life sciences. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. An analysis of two heuristic strategies for the development of mechanistic models, illustrated with historical examples from the life sciences.In Discovering Complexity, William Bechtel and Robert Richardson examine two heuristics that guided the development of mechanistic models in the life sciences- decomposition and localization. Drawing on historical cases from disciplines including cell biology, cognitive neuroscience, and genetics, they identify a number of "choice points" that life scientists confront in developing mechanistic explanations and show how different choices result in divergent explanatory models. Describing decomposition as the attempt to differentiate functional and structural components of a system and localization as the assignment of responsibility for specific functions to specific structures, Bechtel and Richardson examine the usefulness of these heuristics as well as their fallibility-the sometimes false assumption underlying them that nature is significantly decomposable and hierarchically organized.When Discovering Complexity was originally published in 1993, few philosophers of science perceived the centrality of seeking mechanisms to explain phenomena in biology, relying instead on the model of nomological explanation advanced by the logical positivists (a model Bechtel and Richardson found to be utterly inapplicable to the examples from the life sciences in their study). Since then, mechanism and mechanistic explanation have become widely discussed. In a substantive new introduction to this MIT Press edition of their book, Bechtel and Richardson examine both philosophical and scientific developments in research on mechanistic models since 1993. An analysis of two heuristic strategies for the development of mechanistic models, illustrated with historical examples from the life sciences. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. An analysis of two heuristic strategies for the development of mechanistic models, illustrated with historical examples from the life sciences.In Discovering Complexity, William Bechtel and Robert Richardson examine two heuristics that guided the development of mechanistic models in the life sciences: decomposition and localization. Drawing on historical cases from disciplines including cell biology, cognitive neuroscience, and genetics, they identify a number of "choice points" that life scientists confront in developing mechanistic explanations and show how different choices result in divergent explanatory models. Describing decomposition as the attempt to differentiate functional and structural components of a system and localization as the assignment of responsibility for specific functions to specific structures, Bechtel and Richardson examine the usefulness of these heuristics as well as their fallibility-the sometimes false assumption underlying them that nature is significantly decomposable and hierarchically organized.When Discovering Complexity was originally published in 1993, few philosophers of science perceived the centrality of seeking mechanisms to explain phenomena in biology, relying instead on the model of nomological explanation advanced by the logical positivists (a model Bechtel and Richardson found to be utterly inapplicable to the examples from the life sciences in their study). Since then, mechanism and mechanistic explanation have become widely discussed. In a substantive new introduction to this MIT Press edition of their book, Bechtel and Richardson examine both philosophical and scientific developments in research on mechanistic models since 1993. An analysis of two heuristic strategies for the development of mechanistic models, illustrated with historical examples from the life sciences. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Discovering Complexity | Decomposition and Localization as Strategies in Scientific Research | William Bechtel (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | Einband - flex.(Paperback) | Englisch | 2010 | MIT Press | EAN 9780262514736 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand. …