A Textbook Case of the Nature of Science: Laws and Theories in the Science of Biology
โ Scribed by William F. McComas
- Book ID
- 111586013
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 82 KB
- Volume
- 1
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1571-0068
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๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
Simple examples such as the Bernouilli shift and the anharmonic lattice are studied. It is shown that instability as well as the thermodynamic limit lead to a new formulation of laws of nature in terms of probabilities (instead of trajectories or wave functions).
This book brings together for the first time philosophers of biology to write about some of the most central concepts and issues in their field from the perspective of biology education. The chapters of the book cover a variety of topics ranging from traditional ones, such as biological explanation,