essays on mechanisms, interfield relations, and anomaly resolution /
Lindley Darden ; illustrated by Darren Hudson Hick.
New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2006.
1 online resource (xxiv, 346 pages) :
illustrations
Cambridge studies in philosophy and biology
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-335) and index.
Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Long Contents; Introduction; Part I: Biological mechanisms; Part II: Reasoning strategies: relating fields, resolving anomalies; Part III: Discovering mechanisms: construction, evaluation, revision; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I Biological Mechanisms; 1 Thinking About Mechanisms; 2 Discovering Mechanisms in Neurobiology: The Case of Spatial Memory; 3 Strategies in the Interfield Discovery of the Mechanism of Protein Synthesis.
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Reasoning in Biological Discoveries brings together a series of essays written and co-written by Lindley Darden which focus on one of the most heavily debated topics of scientific discovery today. Darden summarizes the philosophy of discovery and elaborates the role that mechanisms play in biological discovery.