Systems biology and the integration of mechanistic explanation and mathematical explanation
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Systems biology and the integration of mechanistic explanation and mathematical explanation.
The paper discusses how systems biology is working toward complex accounts that integrate explanation in terms of mechanisms and explanation by mathematical models-which some philosophers have viewed as rival models of explanation. Systems biology is an integrative approach, and it strongly relies on mathematical modeling. Philosophical accounts of mechanisms capture integrative in the sense of...
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عنوان ژورنال: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1369-8486
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2013.06.002