Philosophy of Developmental Biology

• Main Author: Weber, Marcel
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2022
• Series: Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
• Subjects: Causality; Developmental biology; Mathematics and Science; Mechanism; Philosophy and Religion; Philosophy of biology; Reductionism; thema EDItEUR; thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science; thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion; Vitalism

The history of developmental biology is interwoven with debates as to whether mechanistic explanations of development are possible or whether alternative explanatory principles or even vital forces need to be assumed. In particular, the demonstrated ability of embryonic cells to tune their developme...