How Molecular is Molecular Developmental Biology? A Reply to Alex Rosenberg’s Reductionism Redux: Computing the Embryo

Manfred D. Laubichler; Günter P. Wagner

How Molecular is Molecular Developmental Biology? A Reply to Alex Rosenberg’s Reductionism Redux: Computing the Embryo

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This paper argues in defense ofthe anti-reductionist consensus in the philosophy of biology. More specifically, it takes issues with Alex Rosenberg's recent challenge ofthis position. We argue that the results of modern developmental genetics rather than eliminating the need for functional kinds in explanations of development actually reinforce their importance.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Philosophy of Evolutionary Biology
Subtitle of host publication	Volume I
Publisher	Taylor and Francis
Pages	483-498
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Electronic)	9781351911368
ISBN (Print)	9780754627531
State	Published - Jan 1 2017
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Functional kinds
Molecular developmental biology
Physicalist antireductionism

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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