Against biological determinism
By: The Dialectics of Biology Group ; general editor, Steven Rose.
Contributors: Rose, Steven P. R. 1938-; Dialectics of Biology Group.
Publisher: Allison & Busby; Distributed in the USA by Schocken Books
Published: 1982
Place of publication: London; New York; New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
Subjects: Biology -- Philosophy -- Congresses.; Medicine -- Philosophy -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Papers presented at a conference held in Bressanone, Italy, Mar. 26-30, 1980.
Table of contents: title: Biology and ideology : the uses of reductionism / Martin Barker; title: Human nature and social explanation / Janna L. Thompson; title: On oppositions to reductionism / Hilary Rose and Steven Rose; title: Cleaving the mind : speculations on conceptual dichotomies / Lynda Birke; title: The ideology of medicine / Lesley Rogers; title: Disease models and reductionist thinking in the biomedical sciences / Giorgio Bignami; title: Hierarchical structures and structural descriptions / Giacomo Gava; title: Holism and reductionism are compatible / Allan Muir; title: Matter, information and their interaction in memory processes / Lauro Galzigna; title: Reduction reassessed / Werner Callebaut.