Track My Order
Help Centre
1300 187 187
Likes
My Wish ListsLogin / Join
Booktopia
Australia's local bookstore

0 Item

Darwinian Reductionism : Or, How to Stop Worrying and Love Molecular Biology - Alexander Rosenberg

eTEXT

Darwinian Reductionism

Or, How to Stop Worrying and Love Molecular Biology

By: Alexander Rosenberg

eText | 15 September 2008 | Edition Number 1

At a Glance

eText

$96.80

or 4 interest-free payments of $24.20 with

 or 

Instant online reading in your Booktopia eTextbook Library *

Read online on
Desktop
Tablet
Mobile

Not downloadable to your eReader or an app

Why choose an eTextbook?

Instant Access *

Purchase and read your book immediately

Read Aloud

Listen and follow along as Bookshelf reads to you

Study Tools

Built-in study tools like highlights and more

* eTextbooks are not downloadable to your eReader or an app and can be accessed via web browsers only. You must be connected to the internet and have no technical issues with your device or browser that could prevent the eTextbook from operating.
After 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.
Read online on
Desktop
Tablet
Mobile

You Can Find This eBook In

Non-FictionScienceScience in GeneralPhilosophy of ScienceBiology, Life SciencesMolecular Biology

More in Science in General

Because He Could - Dick Morris

eBOOK

Because He Could

eBook

RRP $28.59

$22.99

20%
OFF
Men of Mathematics - E.T. Bell

eBOOK

Men of Mathematics

eBook

$9.99

Tesla : Man Out of Time - Margaret Cheney

eBOOK

Tesla

Man Out of Time

eBook

$20.99

Ike : An American Hero - Michael Korda

eBOOK

Ike

An American Hero

eBook

$13.99

This product is categorised by