Holism and reductionism in biology and ecology
Subtitle: the mutual dependence of higher and lower level research programmes
By: by Rick C. Looijen.
Series: Episteme -- 23; Episteme (Dordrecht, Netherlands) -- v. 23.
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Dordrecht; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
Subjects: Biology -- Philosophy.; Ecology -- Philosophy.; Holism.; Reductionism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-341).
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: PART 1: Reduction and co-operation in biology; title: CHAPTER 1: Holism and reductionism; title: CHAPTER 2: Reduction of laws and theories; title: CHAPTER 3: Reduction of concepts; title: CHAPTER 4: Emergence, reduction and co-operating research; title: programmes; title: CHAPTER 5: Co-operating research programmes: reduction; title: of the Bohr effect; title: CHAPTER 6: Functional explanations in biology; title: PART 2: Reduction and co-operation in ecology; title: CHAPTER 7: The reduction problem in ecology; title: CHAPTER 8: Ecological communities: conceptual problems and; title: definition; title: CHAPTER 9: The distinction between habitat and niche; title: CHAPTER 10: The reduction of the Lotka/Volterra competition; title: model to modem niche theory; title: CHAPTER 11: Co-operation in island biogeography; title: CHAPTER 12: The inhibitory effect of the holism-reductionism; title: dispute: a controversy in island biogeography and; title: its solution; title: EPILOGUE; title: NOTES; title: REFERENCES; title: NAME INDEX.