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Darwinian Reductionism Or, How to Stop Worrying and Love Molecular Biology

Out of Print
By: Alex Rosenberg
263 pages, 3 line drawings
Darwinian Reductionism
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  • Darwinian Reductionism ISBN: 9780226727295 Hardback Sep 2006 Out of Print #161051
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After the discovery of the structure of DNA in 1953, scientists working in molecular biology embraced reductionism-the theory that all complex systems can be understood in terms of their components. Reductionism, however, has been widely resisted by both nonmolecular biologists and scientists working outside the field of biology. Many of these antireductionists, nevertheless, embrace the notion of physicalism-the idea that all biological processes are physical in nature. How, Alexander Rosenberg asks, can these self-proclaimed physicalists also be antireductionists?

With clarity and wit, Darwinian Reductionism navigates this difficult and seemingly intractable dualism with convincing analysis and timely evidence. In the spirit of the few distinguished biologists who accept reductionism-E. O. Wilson, Francis Crick, Jacques Monod, James Watson, and Richard Dawkins-Rosenberg provides a philosophically sophisticated defense of reductionism and applies it to molecular developmental biology and the theory of natural selection, ultimately proving that the physicalist must also be a reductionist.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction: Biology's Untenable Dualism
1. What Was Reductionism?
2. Reductionism and Developmental Molecular Biology
3. Are There Really Informational Genes and Developmental Programs?
4. Dobzhansky's Dictum and the Nature of Biological Explanation
5. Central Tendencies and Individual Organisms
6. Making Natural Selection Safe for Reductionists
7. Genomics, Human History, and Cooperation
8. How Darwinian Reductionism Refutes Genetic Determinism

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Out of Print
By: Alex Rosenberg
263 pages, 3 line drawings
Media reviews
Rosenberg's book tackles very difficult issues in the philosophy of biology in subtle and innovative ways.--Edward M. Engelmann "Review of Metaphysics "
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