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Explanation in Biology

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    Chapter 1 Explanation in Biology: An Introduction
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    Chapter 2 Is There an Explanation for … the Diversity of Explanations in Biological Studies?
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    Chapter 3 Explanation in Systems Biology: Is It All About Mechanisms?
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    Chapter 4 Historical Contingency and the Explanation of Evolutionary Trends
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    Chapter 5 Developmental Noise: Explaining the Specific Heterogeneity of Individual Organisms
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    Chapter 6 Explaining in Contemporary Molecular Biology: Beyond Mechanisms
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    Chapter 7 Evolutionary Developmental Biology and the Limits of Philosophical Accounts of Mechanistic Explanation
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    Chapter 8 The Relevance of Irrelevance: Explanation in Systems Biology
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    Chapter 9 Generalizing Mechanistic Explanations Using Graph-Theoretic Representations
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    Chapter 10 Mathematical Explanation in Biology
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    Chapter 11 Explanation and Organizing Principles in Systems Biology
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    Chapter 12 Are Dynamic Mechanistic Explanations Still Mechanistic?
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    Chapter 13 Heuristics, Descriptions, and the Scope of Mechanistic Explanation
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    Chapter 14 Prospect and Limits of Explaining Biological Systems in Engineering Terms
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    Chapter 15 From Mechanisms to Mathematical Models and Back to Mechanisms: Quantitative Mechanistic Explanations
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    Chapter 16 Biological Explanations as Cursory Covering Law Explanations
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    Chapter 17 Explanatory Interdependence: The Case of Stem Cell Reprogramming
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    Chapter 18 Explaining Causal Selection with Explanatory Causal Economy: Biology and Beyond
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Chapter title
Evolutionary Developmental Biology and the Limits of Philosophical Accounts of Mechanistic Explanation
Chapter number 7
Book title
Explanation in Biology
Published by
Springer Netherlands, January 2015
DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-9822-8_7
Book ISBNs
978-9-40-179821-1, 978-9-40-179822-8
Authors

Ingo Brigandt

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Country Count As %
New Zealand 1 3%
Germany 1 3%
Norway 1 3%
Unknown 34 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 19%
Researcher 6 16%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 14%
Student > Master 5 14%
Professor 3 8%
Other 7 19%
Unknown 4 11%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Philosophy 13 35%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 11 30%
Arts and Humanities 2 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 5%
Psychology 2 5%
Other 2 5%
Unknown 5 14%