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This article addresses the contributions of the literature on the new mechanistic philosophy of science for the scientific practice of model building in ecology. This is reflected in a one-to-one ... Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Studies in Ecology and Evolution (INCT IN-TREE) , Rua Barão de Jeremoabo, s/n, Campus Ondina, Salvador, Bahia 40170-115 , Brazil 6 History, Philosophy and Biology Teaching Lab
scientific foundations of Nussbaum’s position. On the ethical side, we explore the tension between a robust defence of animal rights and political liberalism, which requires tolerance of a range of reasonable ... Science, London School of Economics and Political Science , London , UK Martha Nussbaum's Justice for Animals calls upon humanity to secure for all sentient beings the central capabilities they need to
differences with respect to organismic features, these two kinds of systems cannot share a typical organismic property such as health. In recent years, an organisational approach in philosophy of biology and ... specifically refer to an approach in the philosophy of biology that has given rise to a number of theoretical developments from the late 1990s onwards (e.g., Schlosser 1998; Collier 2000; Bickhard 2000, 2004
In this paper, we bring together the concepts of affordance from ecological psychology and function from the organizational approach to philosophy of biology into a single integrative framework. This
In recent years, immune systems have sparked considerable interest within the philosophy of science. One issue that has received increased attention is whether other phyla besides vertebrates display ... perspective on immune systems for immunology and its philosophy. Philosophy of immunology; Adaptive immune systems; Epigenetics; Small RNA inheritance; Immune memory Introduction The philosophy of immunology
(hereafter Other Minds) from a methodological perspective. I show that these both instantiate what I call ‘synthetic philosophy.’ They are both Darwinian philosophers of science who draw on each other’s work ... , anthropology, economics, political science, history, philosophy, and literary theory to explain how and why cultural features (good and bad) work the way they do…Pre-Darwinian natural history at its best was
I offer four ways of distinguishing paleobiology from neontology, and from this develop a sketch of the philosophy of paleobiology. I then situate and describe the papers in the special issue
and conceptually. I will conclude with a discussion on some potential implications for more general philosophy of biology and philosophy of science, especially surrounding evidential integration, models ... , United Kingdom 1 Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge , Cambridge , United Kingdom Reconstructing ancestral species is a challenging endeavour: fossils are often scarce
rising need for digital image exchange as a result of that, and the influence of not only privacy and security concerns but also the political factors that shaped the infrastructure in the years that ... , notably that the enablers for information exchange are not only technical provisions, but require also process and political alignment plus fulfilment of important prerequisites such as building trust in
sentience as the central capacity relevant for moral status, leading to a focus on harm-based wrongs in animal ethics. But the political turn in animal ethics has recently shifted the focus on animals’ agency ... , including their socio-cognitive and emotional capacities, pointing to the just inclusion and political participation we owe other animals (e.g. Donaldson and Kymlicka 2011; Meijer 2019; Benz-Schwarzburg 2020
Department of Philosophy, Bielefeld University , Bielefeld , Germany 2 Institute of the Philosophy of the Natural Sciences, Jagiellonian University , Krakow , Poland This paper presents an account of the ... than another allows suggesting interventions at the genetic, molecular and population levels. Biological dispositions; Stem cells; Stemness; Philosophy in science; Inductive metaphysics Introduction
Für Philosophie/Transkulturalität, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf , Universitätsstraße 1, 40225 Düsseldorf , Germany 1 Department of Philosophy, Leibniz Universität , Im Moore 21, 30167 ... international closings of boarders—and the sanitary, economic, political and cultural consequences cannot be foreseen, especially for poorer countries and regions. COVID-19 is highly contagious and spreads much
Article First Online: 13 February 2019 473 Downloads We are most grateful to Eugene Koonin for having accepted to write for Biology & Philosophy a target paper on such a major topic in current ... publications in philosophy of science journals [e.g., (Koonin and Starokadomskyy 2016)] or in collaboration with philosophers (O’Malley and Koonin 2011). Furthermore, and most crucially for the present issue of
philosophy of science and the philosophy of biology must be conventionalist views, or that my arguments in any way carry over to them. In other cases pluralistic views may be consistent with realism (e.g ... theory . Greenwood , New York Lloyd EA ( 2005 ) Why the gene will not return . Philos Sci 72 ( 2 ): 287 - 310 Lloyd EA ( 2017 ) Units and levels of selection . Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. April
, Diepenbeek , Belgium 2 Institute of Philosophy, Leibniz University Hannover , Hannover , Germany 3 Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science, KU Leuven , Leuven , Belgium Human interaction with the living ... classificatory programs. Ereshefsky and Reydon (2023) argue that philosophy can contribute to understanding classifications and classificatory practices by focusing on the assessment of actual classificatory
a growing number of political leaders who continue to undermine cooperative norms, future work in the social sciences should look to ways to promote cooperation, rather than to assume its
(Egenis), Department of Social and Political Sciences , Philosophy, and Anthropology , University of Exeter , Byrne House, St German's Road, Exeter EX4 4PJ , UK 1 Department of Philosophy, University of ... Münster , Domplatz 23, 48143 Münster , Germany 2 Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Münster , Domplatz 23, 48143 Münster , Germany Niches and mechanisms are two important but contested
Natural and Social Science, London School of Economics and Political Science , London, England 2 University of Bristol , Bristol, England With increasing attention given to wild animal welfare and ethics ... a question that can be settled by pure armchair philosophy, but rather one that requires more empirical data regarding the lives and experiences of wild animals. There is a need for measurement of the
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University , Halifax , Canada 1 Gender and Women's Studies Programme, Dalhousie University , Halifax , Canada 2 Department of Social and Political ... Sciences , Philosophy and Anthropology , University of Exeter , Exeter , UK 3 Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University , Halifax , Canada 4 Egenis - Centre for the Study of the Life Sciences
