From philosophy to science (to natural philosophy): evolutionary developmental perspectives.
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This paper focuses on abstraction as a mode of reasoning that facilitates a productive relationship between philosophy and science. Using examples from evolutionary developmental biology, I argue that there are two areas where abstraction can be relevant to science: reasoning explication and problem clarification. The value of abstraction is characterized in terms of methodology (modeling or data gathering) and epistemology (explanatory evaluation or data interpretation).
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The Quarterly review of biology
دوره 83 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2008