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Applications of Conceptual Spaces : The Case for Geometric Knowledge Representation / / edited by Frank Zenker, Peter Gärdenfors
| Applications of Conceptual Spaces : The Case for Geometric Knowledge Representation / / edited by Frank Zenker, Peter Gärdenfors |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2015.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (275 p.) |
| Disciplina |
10
120 519 |
| Collana | Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science |
| Soggetto topico |
Epistemology
Neural networks (Computer science) Mathematical Models of Cognitive Processes and Neural Networks |
| ISBN | 3-319-15021-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Part I. Introduction -- Editors’ introduction: Conceptual spaces at work; Peter Gärdenfors and Frank Zenker -- Part II. Semantic Spaces -- From conceptual spaces to predicates; Jean-Louis Dessalles -- Conceptual spaces at work in sensory cognition: Domains, dimensions and distances; Carita Paradis -- Conceptual spaces, features and word meanings: The case of Dutch shirts; Joost Zwarts -- Meaning negotiation; Massimo Warglien and Peter Gärdenfors -- Part III. Computing Meanings -- How to talk to each other via computers: Semantic interoperability as conceptual imitation; Simon Scheider and Werner Kuhn -- Self-organization of conceptual spaces from quality dimensions; Paul Vogt -- Conceptual spaces and computing with words; Janet Aisbett, John Rickard and Greg Gibbon -- Logical, Ontological and cognitive aspects of objects types and trans-world identity with applications to the theory of conceptual spaces; Giancarlo Guizzardi -- A cognitive architecture for music perception exploiting conceptual spaces; Antonio Chella -- Part IV. Philosophical Perspectives -- Conceptual spaces as philosophers’ tools; Lieven Decock and Igor Douven -- Specification of the unified conceptual space, for purposes of empirical investigation; Joel Parthemore -- A perspectivist approach to conceptual spaces; Mauri Kaipanen and Antti Hautamäki -- Communication, rationality, and conceptual changes in scientific theories; Frank Zenker and Peter Gärdenfors. |
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Chronos in Aristotle’s Physics : On the Nature of Time / / by Chelsea C. Harry
| Chronos in Aristotle’s Physics : On the Nature of Time / / by Chelsea C. Harry |
| Autore | Harry Chelsea C |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2015.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (89 p.) |
| Disciplina |
10
113 180 180-190 501 |
| Collana | SpringerBriefs in Philosophy |
| Soggetto topico |
Science - Philosophy
Philosophy of nature Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy - History Philosophy of Science Philosophy of Nature Ancient Philosophy / Classical Philosophy History of Philosophy |
| ISBN | 3-319-17834-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Abstract -- Dedication -- Acknowledgement -- Introduction.- Chapter 1: Time in Context -- Chapter 2: Physics iv 10-11 in Context Chapter 3: Conditions of Actualized Time -- Chapter 4: Implications of Potential Time Bibliography . |
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Conjunctions of Mind, Soul and Body from Plato to the Enlightenment / / edited by Danijela Kambaskovic
| Conjunctions of Mind, Soul and Body from Plato to the Enlightenment / / edited by Danijela Kambaskovic |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2014.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (428 p.) |
| Disciplina |
10
128.2 |
| Collana | Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind |
| Soggetto topico |
Philosophy of mind
Philosophy of Mind |
| ISBN | 94-017-9072-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Foreword -- Introduction -- Conjunction 1: Text and Self-Perception -- Chapter 1. Body vs. Soul, Text vs. Interpretation in Michael Psellos; Graeme Miles -- Chapter 2. Murdering Souls and Killing Bodies: Understanding Spiritual and Physical Sin in Late-Medieval English Devotional Works; Philippa Maddern -- Chapter 3. ‘Adam, you are in a Labyrinth’: The First-Person Voice as The Nexus Between Body and Spirit in the Chronicle of Adam Usk; Alicia Marchant -- Chapter 4. The Thin End of The Wedge: Self, Body and Soul in Rembrandt’s Kenwood Self-Portrait; Richard Read -- Conjunction 2: Emotion -- Chapter 5. Grief and Desire, Body and Soul in Gregory of Nyssa’s Life of Saint Macrina; Michael Champion -- Chapter 6. ‘Variable Passions’: Shakespeare’s Mixed Emotions; Bob White -- Chapter7. Subtle Persuasions: The Memory of Bodily Experience as a Rhetorical Device in Francis Bacon’s Parliamentary Speeches; Daniel Derrin -- Chapter 8. Lessons in Music, Lessons in Love; Katherine Wallace -- Conjunction 3: Sex -- Chapter 9. Sex and Spirituality Among the Carolingians; William Schipper -- Chapter 10. On the Bridling of the Body and Soul of Héloise, the ‘Chaste Whore’; Laura French Moran -- Chapter 11. Keeping Body and Soul Together: Jean le Fevre and Sexuality; Karen Pratt -- Chapter 12. Paul, Augustine, and Marital Sex in Guilielmus Estius’ Scriptural Commentaries; Wim François -- Chapter 13. The Ageing of Love: The Waning of Love’s Power; Danijela Kambaskovic-Sawers -- Chapter 14. Quaint Knowledge: A “Body-Mind” Pattern Across Shakespeare’s Career; Laurence Johnson -- Conjunction 4: Material Souls -- Chapter 15. Tears in Ancient and Early Modern Physiology: Petrus Petitus and Niels Stensen; Manfred Horstmanshoff -- Chapter 16. Alchemy and The Body/Mind Question in The Work of John Donne; Michael Ovens -- Chapter 17. ‘Among The Rest Of The Senses….Proued Most Sure’: Ethics of the Senses in Early Modern Europe; Danijela Kambaskovic-Sawers -- Chapter 18. The Material Soul: Strategies for Naturalising the Soul in an Early Modern Epicurean Context; Charles T. Wolfe and Michaela van Esveld. |
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Dao Companion to Daoist Philosophy / / edited by Xiaogan Liu
| Dao Companion to Daoist Philosophy / / edited by Xiaogan Liu |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2015.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (559 p.) |
| Disciplina |
10
181 200 210 |
| Collana | Dao Companions to Chinese Philosophy |
| Soggetto topico |
Philosophy, Modern
Religion Religion - Philosophy Ethnology Culture Philosophical Traditions Philosophy of Religion Regional Cultural Studies |
| ISBN | 90-481-2927-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Was There a founder of Daoism? Liu Xiaogan -- Thematic Analyses of the Laozi, M. Csikszentmihalyi -- Multi-dimensions of the Laozi, Liu Xiaogan -- Early Daoist Thought in Excavated Bamboo Slips, Xing Wen -- Textual Issues of the Zhuangzi, Liu Xiaogan -- Conceptual analyses of the Zhuangzi, S. Coutinho -- Multi-dimensions of the inner Chapters, Liu Xiaogan -- Various Theories of Outer and Miscellaneous Chapters, Liu Xiaogan -- Doctrines and Transformation of the Huang-Lao Tradition, Chen Li-kuei, Winnie Sung -- Daoism in the Guanzi, Harold Roth -- The Pheasant Cap Mater, Carine Defoort -- The Four Lost Classics, G. Vankeerberghen -- Wenzi and Daoism, P. Van Els -- Huainanzi: The Pinnacle of Classical Daoist Syncretism, H. Roth -- Wang Bi and Neo-Daoism, R. Lynn -- Guo Xiang and Neo-Daoism, Brook Zipory -- Worthies of the Bamboo Grove, Yuet keung Lo -- The Liezi and Daoism, June Won Seo -- Daoism from Philosophy to Religion, Liu Xiaogan, et.al -- Daoism and Confucianism, K. Lai -- Daoism and Buddhism, Yao Zhihua -- Daoism and Greek Philosophy, L. Rphals -- Daoism and Science, L. Rphals -- Index. |
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Dao Companion to Japanese Confucian Philosophy / / edited by Chun-chieh Huang, John Allen Tucker
| Dao Companion to Japanese Confucian Philosophy / / edited by Chun-chieh Huang, John Allen Tucker |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2014.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (432 p.) |
| Disciplina |
10
181 200 210 |
| Collana | Dao Companions to Chinese Philosophy |
| Soggetto topico |
Philosophy, Modern
Religion Religion - Philosophy Ethnology Culture Philosophical Traditions Philosophy of Religion Regional Cultural Studies |
| ISBN | 90-481-2921-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1: Introduction; Huang Chun-chieh and John Allen Tucker -- Chapter 2: The Meanings of Words and Confucian Political Philosophy: A Study of Matsunaga Sekigo’s Ethics; John Allen Tucker -- Chapter 3: Spirits, Gods, and Heaven in Confucian Thought; W. J. Boot -- Chapter 4: Making Destiny in the Kingdom of Ryuku; Gregory Smits -- Chapter 5: The Somaticization of Learning in Edo Confucianism: The Rejection of Mind-Body Dualism in the Thought of Kaibara Ekken; Tsujimoto Masashi (translated by Barry D. Steben) -- Chapter 6: Ogyū Sorai: Confucian Conservative Reformer: From Journey to Kai to Discourse on Government; Olof G. Lidin -- Chapter 7: The Philosophical Moment Between Ogyū Sorai and Kaiho Seiryō: Indigenous Modernity in the Political Theories of Eighteenth-Century Japan? Olivier Ansart -- Chapter 8: Human Nature and the Way in the Philosophy of Dazai Shundai; Peter Flueckiger -- Chapter 9: Kokugaku Critiques of Confucianism and Chinese Culture; Peter Nosco -- Chapter 10: Saints as Sinners: Andō Shōeki’s Back-to-Nature Critique of the Saints, Confucian and Otherwise; Jacques Joly -- Chapter 11: Moral and Philosophical Idealism in Late-Edo Confucian Thought: Ōshio Chūsai and the Working Out of his “Great Aspiration”; Barry D. Steben -- Chapter 12: Divination and Meiji Politics: A Reading of Takashima Kaemon’s Judgment on the Yijing; Wai-Ming Ng -- Chapter 13: “Orthodoxy” and “Legitimacy” in the Yamazaki Ansai School; Maruyama Masao (translated by Barry D. Steben) -- Chapter 14: Zhu Xi and “Zhu Xi-ism:” Toward a Critical Perspective on the Ansai School; Koyasu Nobukuni (translated by Barry D. Steben). |
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Dialectics and the Sublime in Underhill's Mysticism / / by Peter Chong-Beng Gan
| Dialectics and the Sublime in Underhill's Mysticism / / by Peter Chong-Beng Gan |
| Autore | Gan Peter Chong-Beng |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2015.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (251 p.) |
| Disciplina |
10
200 |
| Soggetto topico |
Philosophy
Religion Philosophy, general Religious Studies, general |
| ISBN | 981-287-484-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preface and Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1: Evelyn Underhill and her foundational text on mysticism -- 1.2: Mysticism: concept, approaches and the thrust of this study -- 1.3: Writings on and by Underhill -- 1.4: Procedure -- 1.5: The chapters -- 1.6: A note on gender pronouns -- Chapter 2: Being-Becoming -- 2.1: Introduction -- 2.2: Vitalism: transcendence in this world of flux -- 2.3: A general configuration of being, becoming and infinite being -- 2.4: Being and becoming and the mediating dialectic -- 2.5: Being and becoming and the individualizing dialectic -- 2.6: Transcendence and immanence and the being-becoming dialectics -- 2.7: Sublimity and the two forms of mystical transcendence -- 2.7.1: The sublime in transcendence as including-exceeding -- 2.7.1.1: Experiencing divine reality as infinite -- 2.7.1.2: Experiencing all finite beings as immersed in infinite reality -- 2.7.2: The sublime in transcendence as excluding -- 2.8: Chapter conclusion -- Chapter 3: Infinity-Finitude -- 3.1: Introduction -- 3.2: Talking about infinity -- 3.2.1: Potential and actual infinities: establishing the contention -- 3.2.2: A synthesis of potential and actual infinities -- 3.3: Dialectical trinity -- 3.3.1: Configuring the relational structure of the trinity -- 3.3.2: Hegel’s infinity and trinity -- 3.4: The problem of objectivity in mystical intimacy -- 3.4.1: Trans subjectivism and mysticism -- 3.4.2: Objective idealism and mysticism -- 3.4.3: Tentative unitivism and mysticism -- 3.5: Chapter conclusion -- 4: Light-Darkness (I) -- 4.1: Introduction -- 4.2: A dialectical metaphor -- 4.2.1: Dialectical pairing -- 4.2.2: Dialectical procedure as negation of negation -- 4.3: Mysticism’s stage development: an overview -- 4.4: The dawn of the mystical quest -- 4.4.1: Testimonials on awakening -- 4.4.2: Sublime awakening -- 4.5: The first transformative night -- 4.5.1: Detachment -- 4.5.2: Mortification -- 4.5.3: Dialectical incorporation, universal-particular dialectic, and sublimity -- 4.6: Illumination -- 4.7: Chapter conclusion -- Chapter 5: Light-Darkness (II) -- 5.1: Introduction -- 5.2: The second transformative night -- 5.2.1: Dark night and depression -- 5.2.2: Sublimity and the negation of negation -- 5.2.3: Darkness as emptiness -- 5.2.4: Oscillation and co-existence of light and darkness -- 5.2.5: Purification of sense and spirit -- 5.2.6: Mystical death -- 5.3: The Unitive Life -- 5.3.1: Experience of mystical union and the issue of the content of consciousness -- 5.3.2: Union experience versus identity experience -- 5.3.3: The enduring unitive life -- 5.4: Chapter conclusion -- Chapter 6: Conclusion -- 6.1: Sublime beauty and beautiful sublime -- 6.2: Overall summing-up and suggestions for future researches -- References -- Index. |
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Gan Peter Chong-Beng
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Educational Leaders Without Borders : Rising to Global Challenges to Educate All / / edited by Rosemary Papa, Fenwick W. English
| Educational Leaders Without Borders : Rising to Global Challenges to Educate All / / edited by Rosemary Papa, Fenwick W. English |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2016.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (233 p.) |
| Disciplina |
10
107 370.116 370.9 379 |
| Soggetto topico |
Philosophy and social sciences
Education and state International education Comparative education Philosophy of Education Educational Policy and Politics International and Comparative Education |
| ISBN | 3-319-12358-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Part I. Educational Leaders without Borders -- The Framework of Educational Leaders without Borders -- What is an Educational Leader without Borders? -- Part II. Historical and Philosophical Impacts -- The Context of Schooling -- Competing Views of Globalization which Define the Common Good -- Part III -- Complexity of Globalization -- Implications in What Footprints are we Leaving? -- The Educational Leader Wrestles with Complexity. |
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The Elements of Knowledge Organization / / by Richard P. Smiraglia
| The Elements of Knowledge Organization / / by Richard P. Smiraglia |
| Autore | Smiraglia Richard P |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2014.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (104 p.) |
| Disciplina |
004
006.312 025.04 10 |
| Soggetto topico |
Information retrieval
Data mining Linguistics Philosophy Information Storage and Retrieval Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Linguistics, general Philosophy, general |
| ISBN | 3-319-09357-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- About the Theory of Knowledge Organization -- Philosophy: Underpinnings of Knowledge Organization -- History: From Bibliographic Control to Knowledge Organization -- Ontology -- Taxonomy -- Classification: Bringing Order with Concepts -- Metadata -- Thesauri -- Domain analysis. |
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Smiraglia Richard P
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Experts and Consensus in Social Science / / edited by Carlo Martini, Marcel Boumans
| Experts and Consensus in Social Science / / edited by Carlo Martini, Marcel Boumans |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2014.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (309 p.) |
| Disciplina |
10
300.1 330 |
| Collana | Ethical Economy, Studies in Economic Ethics and Philosophy |
| Soggetto topico |
Philosophy and social sciences
Economic history Social sciences Philosophy of the Social Sciences History of Economic Thought/Methodology Methodology of the Social Sciences |
| ISBN | 3-319-08551-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures""; ""List of Tables""; ""Chapter 1: Introduction: Experts and Consensus in Social Science""; ""1.1 Subjective Judgment in the Social Sciences""; ""1.2 From Science to Policy Making""; ""1.3 Consensus or Disagreement""; ""1.4 Seeking Expert-Based Consensus""; ""1.5 The Contributions in This Volume""; ""References""; ""Part I: Consensus in Practice""; ""Chapter 2: The Institutional Economics of Stakeholder Consultation; How Experts Can Contribute to Reduce the Costs of Reaching...""; ""2.1 Introduction""; ""2.2 Matching Zones""
""2.2.1 Definition and Types""""2.2.2 Project-Based Matching Zones""; ""2.2.3 Broad-Based Matching Zones""; ""2.2.4 Explaining the Demand for Matching Zones""; ""2.2.4.1 Excessive Regulatory Pressure""; ""2.2.4.2 Inefficient Public Services and Excessive Bureaucratic Specialization""; ""2.2.4.3 New Policies and Projects""; ""2.3 Cases""; ""2.3.1 The Alders Table""; ""2.3.2 The Social Economic Council (SER)""; ""2.3.3 Participatory Budgeting in Brazil""; ""2.3.4 Imports of Animal Nutriments""; ""2.4 Theoretical Framework: The Added Value of Matching Zones""; ""2.4.1 Externalities"" ""2.4.2 Economic Welfare Improvements""""2.4.3 Types of Economic Interaction""; ""2.4.4 Transmission Mechanisms""; ""2.4.4.1 Enforcement of Agreements""; ""2.4.4.2 Repeated Interaction""; ""2.4.4.3 Fairness and Transaction Costs""; ""2.5 Learned Lessons""; ""2.5.1 The Strategic Level: When to Use a Matching Zone""; ""2.5.2 The Tactical Level: How to Design a Matching Zone""; ""2.5.3 The Operational Level: How to Manage a Matching Zone""; ""2.6 Conclusion""; ""References""; ""Chapter 3: Model-Based Consensus""; ""3.1 Introduction""; ""3.2 A Methodology for an Inexact Science"" ""3.3 The Cooke Method""""3.4 Model-Based Forecasting""; ""3.5 Model-Based Consensus""; ""3.6 Conclusions""; ""References""; ""Chapter 4: Explicating Ways of Consensus-Making in Science and Society: Distinguishing the Academic, the Interface and the Met...""; ""4.1 Introduction""; ""4.2 Aspects of Scientific Consensus: The Intra-scientific Consensus and the Science-Society Interface""; ""4.3 Consensus-Making Conferences: Miriam Solomon on the Two Moments of Consensus-Making""; ""4.4 Consensus-Making and the Meta-Consensus I: Deliberative Choreographies, Aggregation and Contestability"" ""4.5 Experts and Consensus-Making: John Beatty on the Two Moments of Consensus-Making""""4.6 Consensus-Making and the Meta-Consensus II: A Social-Procedural Account of Scientific Consensus""; ""4.7 Modifying the Public Understanding of Scientific Consensus""; ""4.8 Conclusions""; ""References""; ""Part II: Frameworks of Consensus""; ""Chapter 5: Judgments About the Relevance of Evidence in the Context of Peer Disagreements and Practical Rationality""; ""5.1 Introduction""; ""5.2 The Real Problem of Disagreement - Setting the Stage""; ""5.2.1 Disagreements Between Ordinary People"" ""5.2.2 A Brief Note on Disagreements in the Economic Literature"" |
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Explanation in Biology : An Enquiry into the Diversity of Explanatory Patterns in the Life Sciences / / by Pierre-Alain Braillard, Christophe Malaterre
| Explanation in Biology : An Enquiry into the Diversity of Explanatory Patterns in the Life Sciences / / by Pierre-Alain Braillard, Christophe Malaterre |
| Autore | Braillard Pierre-Alain |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2015.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (434 p.) |
| Disciplina |
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501 519 570.1 |
| Collana | History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences |
| Soggetto topico |
Biology - Philosophy
Science - Philosophy Neural networks (Computer science) Philosophy of Biology Philosophy of Science Mathematical Models of Cognitive Processes and Neural Networks |
| ISBN | 94-017-9822-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1. “Explanation in Biology: An Introduction” -- PART I – EXPLORING EXPLANATORY PLURALISM IN BIOLOGY -- Chapter 2. “Is There an Explanation for the Diversity of Explanations in Biological Sciences?” -- Chapter 3. “Explanation in Systems Biology: Is It All About Mechanisms?” -- Chapter 4. “Historical Contingency and the Explanation of Evolutionary Trends” -- Chapter 5. “Developmental Noise: Explaining the Specific Heterogeneity of Individual Organisms” -- PART II – MECHANISTIC EXPLANATION: APPLICATIONS AND EMENDATIONS -- Chapter 6. “Explaining in Contemporary Molecular Biology: Beyond Mechanisms” -- Chapter 7. “Evolutionary Developmental Biology and the Limits of Philosophical Accounts of Mechanistic Explanation” -- Chapter 8. “The Relevance of Irrelevance: Explanation in Systems Biology” -- Chapter 9. “Graph-Theoretic Perspectives on Dynamic Mechanistic Explanation” -- PART III – THE ROLE OF MATHEMATICS IN BIOLOGICAL EXPLANATIONS -- Chapter 10. “Mathematical Explanation in Biology” -- Chapter 11. “Explanation and Organizing Principles in Systems Biology” -- Chapter 12. “Are dynamic mechanistic explanations still mechanistic?” -- PART IV – THE ROLE OF HEURISTICS IN BIOLOGICAL EXPLANATIONS -- Chapter 13. “Heuristics, Descriptions, and the Scope of Mechanistic Explanation” -- Chapter 14. “Prospect and Limits of Explaining Biological Systems in Engineering Terms” -- Chapter 15. “From Mechanisms to Mathematical Models and Back to Mechanisms: Quantitative Mechanistic Explanations” -- PART V – NEW THEORIES OF EXPLANATION IN BIOLOGY AND ELSEWHERE -- Chapter 16. “Biological Explanations as Cursory Covering Law Explanations” -- Chapter 17. “Explaining Cell Development: Stem Cells and Reprogramming” -- Chapter 18. “Explaining Causal Selection with Explanatory Causal Economy : Biology and Beyond”. |
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Braillard Pierre-Alain
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