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Integrating Scientific Disciplines

Case Studies from the Life Sciences

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  • © 1986

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  1. William Bechtel
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Part of the book series: Science and Philosophy (SCPH, volume 2)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-X
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Nature of Scientific Integration

      • William Bechtel
      Pages 3-52

  3. The Coming Together of Biochemistry

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-53
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    2. Introduction

      • Ahmed Abdelal
      Pages 55-58

    3. Intermediary Metabolism in the Early Twentieth Century

      • Frederic L. Holmes
      Pages 59-76

    4. Biochemistry: A Cross-Disciplinary Endeavor That Discovered a Distinctive Domain

      • William Bechtel
      Pages 77-100

  4. Dobzhansky’s Contribution to the Evolutionary Synthesis

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107
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    2. Introduction

      • Robert Brandon
      Pages 109-111

    3. Relations Among Fields in the Evolutionary Synthesis

      • Lindley Darden
      Pages 113-123

    4. The Synthesis and the Synthetic Theory

      • John Beatty
      Pages 125-135

  5. Incorparating Development Biology into the Evolutionary Synthesis

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143
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    2. Introduction

      • Marjorie Grene
      Pages 145-148

    3. Can Embryologists Contribute to an Understanding of Evolutionary Mechanisms?

      • Bruce Wallace
      Pages 149-163

    4. A Framework to Think About Evolving Genetic Regulatory Systems

      • Stuart A. Kauffman
      Pages 165-184

    5. Developmental Constraints, Generative Entrenchment, and the Innate-Acquired Distinction

      • William C. Wimsatt
      Pages 185-208

    6. On Integrating the Study of Evolution and of Development

      • Richard M. Burian
      Pages 209-228

  6. Extending Cognitive Science

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 235-235
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    2. Introduction

      • Adele Abrahamsen
      Pages 237-241

    3. The Evolution of Communicative Capacities

      • E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, William D. Hopkins
      Pages 243-262
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About this book

Interdisciplinary research has been a popular idea with many people in the last 20 years. Academic administrators have admonished their faculty to become more interdisciplinary. Students often request the chance to pursue an interdisciplinary degree. While the issue of managing interdisciplinary projects has received a fair amount of attention by those interested in science management, interdisciplinary research has received little attention from historians, philosophers or sociologists of science or from scientists themselves. Yet, there l;lre a number of cases within the life sciences where researchers have been actively engaged in endeavors that take them across disciplinary boundaries. These are ripe for investigation by those interested in the process of science. To provide an in-depth study of some historical or contemporary cases of cross­ disciplinary research activity in the life sciences, a conference was held at Georgia State University in May, 1984. This conference was supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (U. S. A. ) through their research conference program. Over a three-day period historians, philosophers, and researchers who were actively engaged in various of the life sciences discussed specific examples of interdisciplinary research and tried to analyze what was needed for successful crossing of disciplinary boundaries. After the conference, each of the participants revised their original presentations, partly in light of the discussion at the conference. The papers in this volume are the fruits of that endeavor.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Integrating Scientific Disciplines

  • Book Subtitle: Case Studies from the Life Sciences

  • Editors: William Bechtel

  • Series Title: Science and Philosophy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-9435-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Dordrecht 1986

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-247-3342-2Published: 31 August 1986

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-9435-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0924-4697

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 360

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science

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