EAN: 9789401794114

CONCEPTUAL CHANGE IN BIOLOGY GEBUNDEN

This volume explores questions about conceptual change from both scientific and philosophical
viewpoints by analyzing the recent history of evolutionary developmental biology. It features
revised papers that originated from the workshop Conceptual Change in Biological Science:
Evolutionary Developmental Biology  1981-2011 held at the Max Planck Institute for the History
of Science in Berlin in July 2010. The Preface has been written by Ron Amundson. In these
papers  philosophers and biologists compare and contrast key concepts in evolutionary
developmental biology and their development since the original  seminal Dahlem conference on
evolution and development held in Berlin in 1981. Many of the original scientific participants
from the 1981 conference are also contributors to this new volume and  in conjunction with
other expert biologists and philosophers specializing on these topics  provide an authoritative
comprehensive view on the subject. Taken together  the papers supply novel perspectives on how
and why the conceptual landscape has shifted and stabilized in particular ways  yielding
insights into the dynamic epistemic changes that have occurred over the past three decades.
This volume will appeal to philosophers of biology studying conceptual change  evolutionary
developmental biologists focused on comprehending the genesis of their field and evaluating its
future directions  and historians of biology examining this period when the intersection of
evolution and development rose again to prominence in biological science.

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