What do biologists want? If, unlike their counterparts in physics,
biologists are generally wary of a grand, overarching theory, at
what kinds of explanation do biologists aim? How will we know when
we have "made sense" of life? Such questions, Evelyn Fox Keller
suggests, offer no simple answers. Explanations in the biological
sciences are typically provisional and partial, judged by criteria
as heterogeneous as their subject matter. It is Keller's aim in
this bold and challenging book to account for this epistemological
diversity--particularly in the discipline of developmental biology.
In particular, Keller asks, what counts as an "explanation" of
biological development in individual organisms? Her inquiry ranges
from physical and mathematical models to more familiar explanatory
metaphors to the dramatic contributions of recent technological
developments, especially in imaging, recombinant DNA, and computer
modeling and simulations.
A history of the diverse and changing nature of biological
explanation in a particularly charged field, "Making Sense of Life"
draws our attention to the temporal, disciplinary, and cultural
components of what biologists mean, and what they understand, when
they propose to explain life.
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