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Philosophical Perspectives on the Engineering Approach in Biology - Living Machines? (Hardcover)
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Philosophical Perspectives on the Engineering Approach in Biology - Living Machines? (Hardcover)
Series: History and Philosophy of Biology
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Philosophical Perspectives on the Engineering Approach in Biology
provides a philosophical examination of what has been called the
most powerful metaphor in biology: The machine metaphor. The
chapters collected in this volume discuss the idea that living
systems can be understood through the lens of engineering methods
and machine metaphors from both historical, theoretical, and
practical perspectives. In their contributions the authors examine
questions about scientific explanation and methodology, the
interrelationship between science and engineering, and the impact
that the use of engineering metaphors in science may have for
bioethics and science communication, such as the worry that its
wide application reinforces public misconceptions of the nature of
new biotechnology and biological life. The book also contains an
introduction that describes the rise of the machine analogy and the
many ways in which it plays a central role in fundamental debates
about e.g. design, adaptation, and reductionism in the philosophy
of biology. The book will be useful as a core reading for
professionals as well as graduate and undergraduate students in
courses of philosophy of science and for life scientists taking
courses in philosophy of science and bioethics.
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