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Molecular Biology

Concepts in Molecular Biology 2.1 Mechanism 2.2 Information 2.3 Gene 3. Molecular Biology and General...divided biology into molecular biology and everything else, which he dubbed “functional biology”. “Reductionism...1. History of Molecular Biology 1.1 Origins 1.2 Classical Period 1.3 Going Molecular 1.4 Going Genomic...

James Tabery, Monika Piotrowska, and Lindley Darden

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/molecular-biology/

Molecular Genetics

reduced to molecular genetics. With the rise of developmental genetics and developmental biology, philosophical...classical genetics Research in molecular biology and genetics has yielded answers to the basic questions... remain aloof from the reductive grasp of molecular biology. A different image emerges from viewing...

Ken Waters

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/molecular-genetics/

Developmental Biology

embryology, cell biology, and molecular biology) or catalogues of “key molecular components” (transcription... that drawn from molecular biological mechanisms (see the entry on molecular biology) and mathematical...| models in science | molecular biology | reduction, scientific: in biology | scientific explanation...

Alan Love

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/biology-developmental/

Conservation Biology

and values central to conservation biology. First, conservation biology as a discipline has expended a great...Conservation Biology and the Philosophy of Science 3. What Are the Aims of Conservation Biology? 3.1...Conservation Biology? Whether or not there is a single thing that conservation biology as a discipline...

Jay Odenbaugh

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/conservation-biology/

Reductionism in Biology

sociology to organismal biology, organismal biology to molecular biology, molecular biology to chemistry, and...explanation in molecular biology”, in Molecular models of life: philosophical papers on molecular biology, Cambridge...occurs in molecular biology, where certain cellular features are explained by molecular biology, more precisely...

Ingo Brigandt and Alan Love

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/reduction-biology/

Philosophy of Biology

Evolutionary Biology 4. Philosophy of Systematic Biology 5. Philosophy of Molecular Biology 6. Philosophy...dogmas of molecular biology,” in Sarkar, S. (ed.), The Philosophy and History of Molecular Biology: New Perspectives... found in biology (Mayr 1975, Sober 1980; Ariew 2008)? 5. Philosophy of Molecular Biology We mentioned...

Jay Odenbaugh and Paul Griffiths

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/biology-philosophy/

Philosophy of Cell Biology

same period (see the entry on molecular biology). While molecular biology began with a focus on bacterial...of difference between cell biology and molecular biology is that cell biology placed high value on linking...changed to Molecular Biology of the Cell. Although there are textbooks that reference just cell biology in their...

William Bechtel and Andrew Bollhagen

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/cell-biology/

Experiment in Biology

to move into other areas of biology such as cell biology, molecular biology, immunology, neuroscience, ...invaluable. Plant molecular biology’s favorite is Arabidopsis thaliana. Cell biology has found in baker...Viruses and the Origins of Molecular Biology”, Journal of the History of Biology, 26: 239–254. Lehninger...

Marcel Weber

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/biology-experiment/

Feminist Philosophy of Biology

not supported by molecular biology. Feminist and non-feminist philosophers of biology have made it clear...History of Biology, 21: 195–212. –––, 1990. “Physics and the Emergence of Molecular Biology: A History... feminist-influenced critique of cell and molecular biology because they controlled for gender bias. This...

Carla Fehr

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminist-philosophy-biology/

Teleological Notions in Biology

philosophers of biology believe that functional explanation is uniquely appropriate to biology, turning to...hoped to purge biology of any vestiges of Aristotelian final causes whilst providing biology with an acceptable...Uses of Causal Role Function in Evolutionary Biology”, Biology & Philosophy, 9(4): 443–469. doi:10.1007/BF00850375...

Colin Allen and Jacob Neal

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/teleology-biology/

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