书目名称 | Mechanism and Causality in Biology and Economics |
编辑 | Hsiang-Ke Chao,Szu-Ting Chen,Roberta L. Millstein |
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概述 | One of the first books to examine the relationships between philosophy, biology and economics.Offers a comprehensive review of causal and mechanistic issues in biology and economics.Discusses the phil |
丛书名称 | History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences |
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描述 | .This volume addresses fundamental issues in the philosophy of science in the context of two most intriguing fields: biology and economics. Written by authorities and experts in the philosophy of biology and economics, .Mechanism and Causality in Biology and Economics. provides a structured study of the concepts of mechanism and causality in these disciplines and draws careful juxtapositions between philosophical apparatus and scientific practice. By exploring the issues that are most salient to the contemporary philosophies of biology and economics and by presenting comparative analyses, the book serves as a platform not only for gaining mutual understanding between scientists and philosophers of the life sciences and those of the social sciences, but also for sharing interdisciplinary research that combines both philosophical concepts in both fields..The book begins by defining the concepts of mechanism and causality in biology and economics, respectively. The second and third parts investigate philosophical perspectives of various causal and mechanistic issues in scientific practice in the two fields. These two sections include chapters on causal issues in the theory of evolutio |
出版日期 | Book 2013 |
关键词 | Causal issues in the theory of natural selection; Causal models; Causal structure; Connections between |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2454-9 |
isbn_softcover | 978-94-007-9348-4 |
isbn_ebook | 978-94-007-2454-9Series ISSN 2211-1948 Series E-ISSN 2211-1956 |
issn_series | 2211-1948 |
copyright | Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013 |