Philosophical essays on physics and biology
By: José Luis González Recio, ed
Series: Europaea memoria. Reihe I, Studien -- Bd. 65; Europaea memoria -- Bd. 65.
Publisher: G. Olms
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Hildesheim; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 415
ISBN-13: 9783487137131
Subjects: Biology; Philosophy; Physics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Summary in English and German.
Table of contents: title: Space, time, causality, and method / José Luis González Recio; title: Masters. Causality and design : teleological explanations in the living world / Francisco J. Ayala; title: Space. The size of the universe : a problem for natural philosophy / Javier Ordóñez & Ana Rioja; title: Do mathematical models represent the world? : the case of quantum mathematical models / Carlos Madrid; title: Ethological space : transgressing the boundaries / Carlos Castrodeza; title: Life in three dimensions, or, The well-tempered biological space / Ruth García Chico & José Luis González Recio; title: The problem of form in molecular biology / Laura Nuño de la Rosa & Fernando M. Pérez Herranz; title: Linus Pauling : molecular disease and the oorigins [sic] of molecular biology / Francisco Javier Serrano Bosquet; title: Time. Philosophy of biology throughout time : the province, the kingdom, and the colonies / José Luis González Recio; title: Dissection and scientific reasoning : from their origins toward a biology of complexity / Juan Carlos Herranz; title: The debate on the origin of life : Margulis' solution / Miguel Huíneman; title: Causality. Reichenbach's common cause principle and indeterminism : a review / Iñaki San Pedro & Mauricio Suárez; title: 3D-realism, bohemian mechanics, and the quest for explanation / Albert Sole; title: The struggle against indeterminism in quantum mechanics through Louis de Broglie and Max Born's scientific and philosophical legacy / Pilar González; title: Biological organization and the role of theoretical biology : function and autonomy / Arantza Etxeberria & Jon Umerez; title: Emergence : between reductive and non reductive explanations : does it make sense? / Alfredo Pérez Martínez; title: Method. Anticipative preduction, sophisticated abduction, and theoretical explanations in the methodology of physics / Andrés Rivadulla; title: Incommensurability : between reference change and untranslatability / Luis Fernández Moreno; title: The needed reform of logic / Juan Antonio Valor.