Scientific Discovery and Inference: Between the Lab and Field in Biology.
An adequate account of how inferences and discoveries are made in modern biology is a difficult prospect for a philosopher. Do we really deduce conclusions from Darwin's principles? Once Darwinian biology is integrated with molecular biology, can we deduce the organism from its DNA? What does induct...
| Publicado en: | Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy Vol. 39; no. 4; pp. 997 - 1010 |
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