LEADER 04073nam 22006734a 450 001 9910782461803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-96637-1 010 $a9786611966379 010 $a0-226-72731-9 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226727318 035 $a(CKB)1000000000578441 035 $a(EBL)408226 035 $a(OCoLC)646783194 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000134931 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11143478 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000134931 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10055210 035 $a(PQKB)10184857 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000122513 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC408226 035 $a(DE-B1597)523722 035 $a(OCoLC)1055285157 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226727318 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL408226 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10265908 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL196637 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000578441 100 $a20051221d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDarwinian reductionism, or, How to stop worrying and love molecular biology$b[electronic resource] /$fAlex Rosenberg 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (275 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-72729-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [239]-247) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tIntroduction. Biology's Untenable Dualism -- $t1. What Was Reductionism? -- $t2. Reductionism and Developmental Molecular Biology -- $t3. Are There Really Informational Genes and Developmental Programs? -- $t4. Dobzhansky's Dictum and the Nature of Biological Explanation -- $t5. Central Tendencies and Individual Organisms -- $t6. Making Natural Selection Safe for Reductionists -- $t7. Genomics, Human History, and Cooperation -- $t8. How Darwinian Reductionism Refutes Genetic Determinism -- $tReferences -- $tIndex 330 $aAfter the discovery of the structure of DNA in 1953, scientists working in molecular biology embraced reductionism-the theory that all complex systems can be understood in terms of their components. Reductionism, however, has been widely resisted by both nonmolecular biologists and scientists working outside the field of biology. Many of these antireductionists, nevertheless, embrace the notion of physicalism-the idea that all biological processes are physical in nature. How, Alexander Rosenberg asks, can these self-proclaimed physicalists also be antireductionists? With clarity and wit, Darwinian Reductionism navigates this difficult and seemingly intractable dualism with convincing analysis and timely evidence. In the spirit of the few distinguished biologists who accept reductionism-E. O. Wilson, Francis Crick, Jacques Monod, James Watson, and Richard Dawkins-Rosenberg provides a philosophically sophisticated defense of reductionism and applies it to molecular developmental biology and the theory of natural selection, ultimately proving that the physicalist must also be a reductionist. 606 $aMolecular biology$xPhilosophy 606 $aBiology$xPhilosophy 606 $aReductionism 610 $acharles darwin, darwinian, biology, biological, science, scientific, scientists, philosophy, philosophical, molecular, dna, reductionist, theory, theoretical, antireductionists, physicalism, dualism, richard dawkins, james watson, jacques monod, francis crick, eo wilson, developmental, informational genes, genetic determinism, human history, genomics, natural selection. 615 0$aMolecular biology$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aBiology$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aReductionism. 676 $a572.8 686 $aCC 3700$qSEPA$2rvk 700 $aRosenberg$b Alexander$f1946-$045160 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782461803321 996 $aDarwinian reductionism, or, How to stop worrying and love molecular biology$93675420 997 $aUNINA