Systems Biology
Philosophical Foundations
Published on 20. March 2007
Book
Hardback
360 pages
978-0-444-52085-2 (ISBN)
Description
Systems biology is a vigorous and expanding discipline, in many ways a successor to genomics and perhaps unprecedented in its combination of biology with a great many other sciences, from physics to ecology, from mathematics to medicine, and from philosophy to chemistry. Studying the philosophical foundations of systems biology may resolve a longer standing issue, i.e., the extent to which Biology is entitled to its own scientific foundations rather than being dominated by existing philosophies.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Elsevier Science & Technology
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Computational biologists, Molecular biologists, Cellular biologists, Systems biologists, Bioinformaticians, Philosophers of Science, Philosophers of Biology
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Laminated cover
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
785 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-444-52085-2 (9780444520852)
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03/2007
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Persons
Editor
Vrije Universiteit, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Dept. of Molecular Cell Physiology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Vrije Universiteit, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Department of Molecular Cell Physiology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
University of Stellenbosch, Faculty of Science, Department of Biochemistry, Matieland, South Africa
Vrije Universiteit, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Dept. of Molecular Cell Physiology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Content
Chapter 1: Towards philosophical foundations of Systems Biology: introduction
Chapter 2: The methodologies of systems biology
Chapter 3: Methodology is Philosophy
Chapter 4: How can we understand metabolism?
Chapter 5: On building reliable pictures with unreliable data: An evolutionary and developmental coda for the new systems biology
Chapter 6: Mechanism and mechanical explanation in systems biology
Chapter 7: Theories, models, and equations in systems biology
Chapter 8: All models are wrong: ... some more than others
Chapter 9: Data without models merging with models without data
Chapter 10: The biochemical factory that autonomously fabricates itself: A systems biological view of the living cell
Chapter 11: A systemic approach to the origin of biological organization
Chapter 12: Biological mechanisms: organized to maintain autonomy
Chapter 13: The disappearance of function from 'self-organizing systems'
Chapter 14: Afterthoughts as foundations for systems biology
Chapter 2: The methodologies of systems biology
Chapter 3: Methodology is Philosophy
Chapter 4: How can we understand metabolism?
Chapter 5: On building reliable pictures with unreliable data: An evolutionary and developmental coda for the new systems biology
Chapter 6: Mechanism and mechanical explanation in systems biology
Chapter 7: Theories, models, and equations in systems biology
Chapter 8: All models are wrong: ... some more than others
Chapter 9: Data without models merging with models without data
Chapter 10: The biochemical factory that autonomously fabricates itself: A systems biological view of the living cell
Chapter 11: A systemic approach to the origin of biological organization
Chapter 12: Biological mechanisms: organized to maintain autonomy
Chapter 13: The disappearance of function from 'self-organizing systems'
Chapter 14: Afterthoughts as foundations for systems biology