Reasoning in biological discoveries : essays on mechanisms, interfield relations, and anomaly resolution / Lindley Darden ; illustrated by Darren Hudson Hick.
2006
QH331 .D26 2006eb
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Title
Reasoning in biological discoveries : essays on mechanisms, interfield relations, and anomaly resolution / Lindley Darden ; illustrated by Darren Hudson Hick.
Author
ISBN
9780511242243 (electronic bk.)
0511242247 (electronic bk.)
9780511498442 (electronic bk.)
0511498446 (electronic bk.)
0511240783
9780511240782
0511241305
9780511241307
9780521858878 (hardback)
0521858879 (hardback)
0511241801 (electronic bk.)
9780511241802 (electronic bk.)
1107167159
9781107167155
1280567953
9781280567957
9786610567959
6610567956
0511318324
9780511318320
9780521117272 (paperback)
0521117275
0511242247 (electronic bk.)
9780511498442 (electronic bk.)
0511498446 (electronic bk.)
0511240783
9780511240782
0511241305
9780511241307
9780521858878 (hardback)
0521858879 (hardback)
0511241801 (electronic bk.)
9780511241802 (electronic bk.)
1107167159
9781107167155
1280567953
9781280567957
9786610567959
6610567956
0511318324
9780511318320
9780521117272 (paperback)
0521117275
Imprint
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Language
English
Language Note
English.
Description
1 online resource (xxiv, 346 pages) : illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers
100440408
9780521858878
9780521858878
Call Number
QH331 .D26 2006eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)78051398
Summary
Reasoning in Biological Discoveries brings together a series of essays written and co-written by Lindley Darden which focus on one of the most heavily debated topics of scientific discovery today. Darden summarizes the philosophy of discovery and elaborates the role that mechanisms play in biological discovery.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-335) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Long Contents; Introduction; Part I: Biological mechanisms; Part II: Reasoning strategies: relating fields, resolving anomalies; Part III: Discovering mechanisms: construction, evaluation, revision; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I Biological Mechanisms; 1 Thinking About Mechanisms; 2 Discovering Mechanisms in Neurobiology: The Case of Spatial Memory; 3 Strategies in the Interfield Discovery of the Mechanism of Protein Synthesis.
Source of Description
Print version record.
Series
Cambridge studies in philosophy and biology.
Available in Other Form
Print version: Darden, Lindley. Reasoning in biological discoveries. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006
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