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Integrative promise = explanatory virtues in biology /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Integrative promise/ by Charles H. Pence.
Reminder of title:	explanatory virtues in biology /
Author:	Pence, Charles H.
Published:	Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland : : 2025.,
Description:	xv, 203 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
[NT 15003449]:	Part I: Integrative Promise and the Explanatory Virtues -- 1 Virtues and Pursuit-Worthiness -- 2 Inter-Domain Integration -- 3 Stringency and Opportunism -- 4 Social Values and Grand Challenges -- 5 Integrative Promise in Action -- Part II: Seeing the Life Sciences Through a New Lens -- 6 ExplanationsWithout Theories? -- 7 The Promise of Model Organism Research -- 8 Using Papers as Data -- 9 Conclusion: Supporting the Search for Promise -- Index.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Biology - Philosophy. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-88471-9
ISBN:	9783031884719

Integrative promise = explanatory virtues in biology /
Pence, Charles H.

Integrative promiseexplanatory virtues in biology /[electronic resource] :by Charles H. Pence. - Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2025. - xv, 203 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Synthese library, studies in epistemology, logic, methodology, and philosophy of science,v. 4992542-8292 ;. - Synthese library, studies in epistemology, logic, methodology, and philosophy of science ;v. 499..

Part I: Integrative Promise and the Explanatory Virtues -- 1 Virtues and Pursuit-Worthiness -- 2 Inter-Domain Integration -- 3 Stringency and Opportunism -- 4 Social Values and Grand Challenges -- 5 Integrative Promise in Action -- Part II: Seeing the Life Sciences Through a New Lens -- 6 ExplanationsWithout Theories? -- 7 The Promise of Model Organism Research -- 8 Using Papers as Data -- 9 Conclusion: Supporting the Search for Promise -- Index.

This book offers a new approach to the way in which biologists evaluate both the explanations they give of biological phenomena and those they would like to pursue. Departing from current scholarship on explanation, it draws out a cluster of virtues which unifies some biological explanations and, in turn, captures part of what makes the life sciences distinctive: integrative promise. With case studies drawn from a wide variety of historical and empirical domains (such as big data biology, model organisms, and natural history), as well as theoretical connections to a number of other areas in the philosophy of science (including mechanism, science and values, and scientific modeling), this work creates a new lens which helps us understand why contemporary life science takes the structure that it does. It provides insight for readers in philosophy and history of science, as well as biologists interested in the theoretical structure and future of their field.

ISBN: 9783031884719

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-88471-9doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

523862
Biology
--Philosophy.

LC Class. No.: QH331

Dewey Class. No.: 570.1

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