1st Edition

The Future of Scientific Practice 'Bio-Techno-Logos'

Edited By Marta Bertolaso Copyright 2015
    248 Pages
    by Routledge

    248 Pages
    by Routledge

    Focusing on cell dynamics, molecular medicine and robotics, contributors explore the interplay between biological, technological and theoretical ways of thinking. The collection makes a strong contribution to current debates in the philosophy of science and the changing role of scientific practice.

    Introduction – Philosophy within Science; Part I Biological Dynamics; Chapter 1 Microscopic and Macroscopic Insights on Dynamic Cell Behaviour, Kumar Selvarajoo; Chapter 2 News from the ‘Twilight Zone’: Protein Molecules between the Crystal and the Watch, Alessandro Giuliani; Chapter 3 Limits to Deterministic-Linear Causality in Biomedicine: Effects of Stochasticity and Non-Linearity in Molecular Networks, Sui Huang; Chapter 4 Embodied Intelligence in the Biomechatronic Design of Robots, Dino Accoto, Cecilia Laschi, Eugenio Guglielmelli; Part II Reflecting on Scientific Understanding and Understanding by Building; Chapter 5 Managing Complexity: Model-Building in Systems Biology and its Challenges for Philosophy of Science, Miles MacLeod; Chapter 6 Stratification and Biomedicine: How Philosophy Stems from Medicine and Biotechnology, F. Boem, G. Boniolo, Z. Pavelka; Chapter 7 Epistemology of Robotics: An Outline, Giampaolo Ghilardi; Part III Towards a Development of a Philosophy of Scientific Practice; Chapter 8 Prediction and Prescription in Biological Systems: The Role of Technology for Measurement and Transformation, Wenceslao J. Gonzalez; Chapter 9 Teleology and Mechanism in Biology, Marco Buzzoni; Chapter 10 Scientific Understanding and the Explanatory use of False Models, Antonio Diéguez; Chapter 11 Bio-Techno-Logos and Scientific Practice, M. Bertolaso, N. Di Stefano, G. Ghilardi, A. Marcos;

    Biography

    Bertolaso, Marta