Lessons from the living cell : the culture of science and the limits of reductionism /
Rothman, S. S.
Lessons from the living cell : the culture of science and the limits of reductionism / Stephen Rothman. - xix, 300 pages. ; 22 cm.
Part I Reductionism: the human genome project and the genomics revolution; in theory and in practice; what is it that makes something living?; a very short primer on modern biology; the uncertainties; the meanings of reductionism - the large and the small of it. Part II Two witnesses examine the cell; life as a self-organizing system; epistemon and eudoxus. Part III Process and mechanism: the reductionist experimental program for the study of living systems; a real life parable; the lesson; the making of a paradigm; the experiments; to be parallel or non-parallel; the tests; the call to authority.
0071378200
Biology--Philosophy.
Cytology--Philosophy.
571.601 / R.S.L
Lessons from the living cell : the culture of science and the limits of reductionism / Stephen Rothman. - xix, 300 pages. ; 22 cm.
Part I Reductionism: the human genome project and the genomics revolution; in theory and in practice; what is it that makes something living?; a very short primer on modern biology; the uncertainties; the meanings of reductionism - the large and the small of it. Part II Two witnesses examine the cell; life as a self-organizing system; epistemon and eudoxus. Part III Process and mechanism: the reductionist experimental program for the study of living systems; a real life parable; the lesson; the making of a paradigm; the experiments; to be parallel or non-parallel; the tests; the call to authority.
0071378200
Biology--Philosophy.
Cytology--Philosophy.
571.601 / R.S.L