Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Reductionism and the Nature of Explanations
- 3 Discovery: Solving Biological Problems
- 4 Scientific Inference: Testing Hypotheses
- 5 Experimental Systems: A Life of Their Own?
- 6 Model Organisms: Of Flies and Elephants
- 7 Reference and Conceptual Change: Out of Mendel's Garden?
- 8 Developmental Biology and the Genetic Program: Explaining Ontogeny
- 9 Scientific Realism: In Search of the Truth
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Reductionism and the Nature of Explanations
- 3 Discovery: Solving Biological Problems
- 4 Scientific Inference: Testing Hypotheses
- 5 Experimental Systems: A Life of Their Own?
- 6 Model Organisms: Of Flies and Elephants
- 7 Reference and Conceptual Change: Out of Mendel's Garden?
- 8 Developmental Biology and the Genetic Program: Explaining Ontogeny
- 9 Scientific Realism: In Search of the Truth
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Philosophy of Experimental Biology , pp. 349 - 358Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004