Philosophical Perspectives on the Engineering Approach in Biology

Introduction


Part 1. Theoretical Issues

1. Restless Machines

2. On Being the Right Size, Revisited: The Problem with Engineering Metaphors in Molecular Biology

3. A Roomful of Robovacs: How to Think About Genetic Programs

4. Living Machines: The Extent and Limits of the Machine Metaphor

Part 2. Methodological Issues

5. Beyond Machine-Like Mechanisms

6. Magnetized Memories: Analogies and Templates in Model Transfer

7. Biological Robustness: Design, Organization and Mechanism

Part 3. Societal Issues

8. The Machine Analogy in Bioethics

9. The Machine Metaphor in Science and Science Communication

Postscript

Este título pertence ao(s) assunto(s) indicados(s). Para ver outros títulos clique no assunto desejado.

• Filosofia da Ciência
• Biologia, ciências da vida
• Filosofia
• História da Ciência
• Ética e filosofia moral

Sherrington Kirkpatrick Model;SK Model;Sune Holm;AMPA Receptor;Maria Serban;Lac Operon;Lucy Holt;Synthetic Biology;Rasmus Gronfeldt Winther;Cellular Circuitry;biology;AMPA;engineering;Biological Robustness;machine;Integral Feedback Control;organism;Machine Metaphor;design;Machine Analogy;Bill Bechtel;Hopfield;Brett Calcott;Structural Causal Explanations;Sara Green;Molecular Machines;Marie Kaiser;Genetic Program;Arnon Levy;Batch Program;Tim Lewens;Computational Templates;Peter McLaughlin;Hopfield Model;Dan Nicholson;Ising Model;Bacterial Chemotaxis;Flexible Constraints;Macroscale Objects;Spin Glasses;Perfect Adaptation;Template Transfer