Rosenberg, Alex <br/><br/>
Reduction and mechanism / 
Alex Rosenberg. 
 - Cambridge :  Cambridge university press,   2020. 
 - 74 p, ;  18 cm. 
 - Cambridge elements - Elements in the philosophy of Biology .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>1 What Was Reductionism?<br/>1.1 Reductionism in Twentieth-Century Philosophy of Science<br/>1.2 The Philosophy of Biology Takes Off<br/>1.3 Twenty-First-Century Antireductionism<br/>2 Biology as Natural History<br/>2.1 Reductionism in a Historical Science<br/>2.2 Developmental Biology and Explanatory Reduction<br/>2.3 Reductionism's Hostage to Fortune<br/>3 Reductionism and Natural Selection<br/>3.1 Showing that Physics Is Enough for Adaptation by Natural Selection<br/>3.2 Showing How Physics Makes Natural Selection the Only Way Adaptations Can Arise<br/>3.3 Physical Asymmetry and Adaptational Evolution<br/>4 Reductionism Makes Way for Mechanism<br/>4.1 How Mechanisms Explain<br/>4.2 Mechanism and Higher-Level Explanation<br/>4.3 Mechanism and Functional Individuation in the Life Sciences 
<br/><br/> This Element explores the debate surrounding reductionism in biology, tracing its development from the post-positivist era to the late 20th-century discussions on supervenience, multiple realizability, and explanatory exclusion. It illustrates how the more widely accepted 21st-century doctrine of "mechanism"—often described as "reductionism with a human face"—inherits both the strengths and challenges of the perspective it has largely replaced. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781108742313 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Biology - Philosophy.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>574.01  / ROS