Levels of organization in the biological sciences / edited by Daniel S. Brooks, James DiFrisco, and William C. Wimsatt.

"This book addresses basic and advanced questions surrounding the idea of levels or organization in the biological sciences"--

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Other Authors: Brooks, Daniel S. (Editor), DiFrisco, James (Editor), Wimsatt, William C. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, 2021.
Series:Vienna series in theoretical biology.
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505 0 |a Introduction: Levels of Organization: The Architecture of the Scientific Image -- 1. Levels, Robustness, Emergence, and Heterogeneous Dynamics: Finding Partial Organization in Causal Thickets -- 2. Levels of Organization as Tool and Doctrine in Biology -- 3. Our World Isn't Organized into Levels -- 4. Levels, Nests, and Branches: Compositional Organization and Downward Causation in Biology -- 5. Levels, Perspectives, and Thickets: Toward an Ontology of Complex Scaffolded Living Systems -- 6. Integrating Composition and Process in Levels of Developmental Evolution -- 7. Manipulating Levels of Organization -- 8. The Origin of New Levels of Organization -- 9. Downward Causation and Levels -- 10. Cancer beyond Genetics: On the Practical Implications of Downward Causation -- 11. Multiscale Modeling in Inactive and Active Materials -- 12. Using Compositional Explanations to Understand Compositional Levels: An Integrative Account -- 13. Functional Kinds and the Metaphysics of Functional Levels: In What Sense Are Functionally Defined Kinds and Levels Nonarbitrary? -- 14. Control Hierarchies: Pattee's Approach to Function and Control as Time-Dependent Constraints -- 15. Phenomenological Levels in Biological and Cultural Evolution 
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