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Discovering Cell Mechanisms

Discovering Cell Mechanisms

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology

Sports GeneralBiologyHistory & Philosophy of Science

ISBN10: 052181247X
ISBN13: 9780521812474
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Oct 10 2005
Pages: 334
Weight: 1.26
Height: 0.91 Width: 6.36 Depth: 9.26
Language: English
Between 1940 and 1970, pioneers in the new field of cell biology discovered the operative parts of cells and their contributions to cell life. Cell biology was a revolutionary science in its own right, but in this book, it also provides fuel for yet another revolution, one that focuses on the very conception of science itself. Laws have traditionally been regarded as the primary vehicle of explanation, but in the emerging philosophy of science it is mechanisms that do the explanatory work. William Bechtel emphasizes how mechanisms were discovered by cell biologists.

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