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PRADEU Philosophy of Immunology Immunology is central to contemporary biology and medicine, but it also provides novel philosoph ...

Elements in the Philosophy of Biology edited by Grant Ramsey KU Leuven Michael Ruse Florida State University PHILOSOPHY OF IMMUN ...

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Philosophy of Immunology Elements in the Philosophy of Biology DOI: 10.1017/ First published online: November 2019 Thomas Pradeu ...

Contents 1 Introduction: The Centrality of Immunity in Biology and Medicine 1 2 Immunity: A Matter of Defense? 3 3 The Unity of ...

1 Introduction: The Centrality of Immunity in Biology and Medicine Immunology is one of the most central and dynamicfields of to ...

diseases (Hansson and Hermansson 2011), neurodegenerative disorders (Heneka et al. 2014; Heppner et al. 2015), and obesity (Lume ...

This Element tries to talk simultaneously to philosophers, scientists, and med- ical doctors. To philosophers of biology, this E ...

promptly eliminated, then antigen-presenting cells, typically dendritic cells, migrate to secondary lymphoid organs such as lymp ...

Effector T lymphocytes: stimulation of other immune cells, destruction of infected cells. Regulatory T lymphocytes: downregulati ...

2.1 Historically, Immunity Has Been Understood As the Capacity of an Organism to Defend Itself against Pathogens Pathogens have ...

Historically, the definition of immunity as defense against pathogens is intimately connected with the development of the vaccin ...

has long been used to make a distinction between two arms of immunity, namely innate and adaptive immunity (Box 2.3). 2.2 Defens ...

modes of recognition (including nucleotide-binding domain, leucine-rich repeat (NLR) receptors) and effector responses (Jones an ...

When you cut yourself, in addition to the well-known action of platelets, which initiate blood clot and vasculature closure, a h ...

functional ascription in the case of the immune system. It increasingly appears that immune systems have evolved under different ...

transition from unicellular to multicellular organisms where, again, the constitution of an immune system at the multicellular l ...

become extremely challenging nowadays. Focusing on defense against patho- gens would be too narrow. On the other hand, extending ...

which became unbearable for him. Hallam interrupted immunosuppressive treatment, organ rejection started, and eventually he aske ...

individual. Finally, I make a claim for combining immunology’s lessons about biological individuality with the lessons drawn fro ...