Instrumental Biology, or The Disunity of Science (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series)

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ISBN-10:

0226727254

ISBN-13:

9780226727257

Edition: 1
Released: Nov 01, 1994
Format: Hardcover, 204 pages
Related ISBN: 9780226727264

Description:

Do the sciences aim to uncover the structure of nature, or are they ultimately a practical means of controlling our environment?

In Instrumental Biology, or the Disunity of Science, Alexander Rosenberg argues that while physics and chemistry can develop laws that reveal the structure of natural phenomena, biology is fated to be a practical, instrumental discipline. Because of the complexity produced by natural selection, and because of the limits on human cognition, scientists are prevented from uncovering the basic structure of biological phenomena. Consequently, biology and all of the disciplines that rest upon it—psychology and the other human sciences—must aim at most to provide practical tools for coping with the natural world rather than a complete theoretical understanding of it.

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