Unifying scientific theories by Margaret Morrison

By Margaret Morrison

This publication is ready the equipment used for unifying diverse medical theories below one all-embracing concept. the method has characterised a lot of the historical past of technology and is renowned in modern physics; the quest for a "theory of every thing" includes an analogous test at unification. Margaret Morrison argues that, opposite to well known philosophical perspectives, unification and rationalization usually have little to do with one another. The mechanisms that facilitate unification should not those who let us to give an explanation for how or why phenomena behave as they do. The e-book emphasizes the significance of mathematical buildings in unification, and claims that regardless of this universal characteristic conception unification is a multi-faceted strategy for which no basic account could be provided.

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Chapter 8 turns to a set of issues that are specific to a certain biological subdiscipline, namely developmental biology. The starting point of this chapter is provided by the popular notion of a developmental program that is thought to be written into an organism’s DNA sequence. I examine two major difficulties with this idea. One difficulty is that this notion appears to be intentional. But it is open to question what legitimate place intentionality can have 14 17:23 P1: KNY/JLP 0521829453c01 P2: KOD/LCL QC: KOD CB725-Weber-v3 May 28, 2004 Introduction in a purely causal mechanism such as a developing organism.

Here, I do not get involved with issues of incommensurability and theory comparison; rather I focus on reference stability. It is widely agreed that the meaning of the gene concept has changed considerably since the beginning of the twentieth century. Biologists are of course aware of this; however, they seem to assume that the gene concept has always referred to the same class of entities (more or less). By contrast, historians of genetics have tended to see little or no continuity in the historical development of the gene concept.

This establishes that there is a philosophically interesting realism issue in experimental biology, even though the issue of realism concerning space and 15 17:23 P1: KNY/JLP 0521829453c01 P2: KOD/LCL QC: KOD CB725-Weber-v3 May 28, 2004 Philosophy of Experimental Biology time is more fundamental. Space and time are omnipresent in biology, as organisms are complex spatiotemporal processes. Next, I examine the standard argumentative strategies for scientific realism. Recent debate in philosophy has centered on the so-called miracle argument.

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