Instrumental Biology, or The Disunity of Science (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series)
Language: English
Published by University of Chicago Press, 1994
Series: Book 14 of 40 - Science and Its Conceptual Foundations
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- Title
- Instrumental Biology, or The Disunity of Science (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series)
- Author
- Rosenberg, Alexander
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Publication year
- 1994
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0226727262
- ISBN 13
- 9780226727264
- Series
- Book 14 of 40: Science and Its Conceptual Foundations
In Instrumental Biology, or the Disunity of Science, Alexander Rosenberg argues that while physics and chemistry can develop laws that reveal the structure of natural phenomena, biology is fated to be a practical, instrumental discipline. Because of the complexity produced by natural selection, and because of the limits on human cognition, scientists are prevented from uncovering the basic structure of biological phenomena. Consequently, biology and all of the disciplines that rest upon it—psychology and the other human sciences—must aim at most to provide practical tools for coping with the natural world rather than a complete theoretical understanding of it.
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About the Author
Alex Rosenberg is the R. Taylor Cole Professor of Philosophy and Biology at Duke University and the author of many books, including Economics—Mathematical Politics or Science of Diminishing Returns? and Instrumental Biology, or The Disunity of Science, both published by the University of Chicago Press.
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