Philosophy of Biology

354 Alex Rosenberg (PS) Consider the following kind of process, aPS-process (forpairing and separation). There are some basic en ...

Reductionism in Biology 355 This, however, raises the real problem which daunts antireductionism. Antire- ductionism requires an ...

356 Alex Rosenberg tail and silence about an objective pattern instantiated by this and other peg-and whole cases. Kitcher impli ...

Reductionism in Biology 357 Antireductionists wedded to alternative, non-erotetic accounts of explanation, cannot adopt the gamb ...

358 Alex Rosenberg junction is not a causal or a real property at all. Therefore it cannot figure in an explanation of either (P ...

Reductionism in Biology 359 Biology is unavoidably terrestrial. Its explanatory resources are spatiotempo- rally restricted in t ...

360 Alex Rosenberg tinction among explanations.. The distinction is between what are called “how- possibly explanations” and “wh ...

Reductionism in Biology 361 these spots attract the attention and focus the attacks of predators onto parts of the butterfly les ...

362 Alex Rosenberg amazed by the degree of apparent optimality of natural design, as well as the reli- gious creationist, all st ...

Reductionism in Biology 363 tion. Accordingly, how-possibly explanations are perfectly acceptable ones, or else the ultimate exp ...

364 Alex Rosenberg That is, they may summarize sequences of events in the lives of organisms of a species or for that matter in ...

Reductionism in Biology 365 eye-spot development in the buckeye butterfly. Once these details were elucidated inDrosophilait bec ...

366 Alex Rosenberg the various ectopic and gene deletion experiments employed to formulate the why- necessary explanation for th ...

Reductionism in Biology 367 wing-production inDrosophila(or its ancestor) to focus production inPreciseye- spot development. “Th ...

368 Alex Rosenberg insists that the genes, and proteins they produce are still the “bottleneck” through which selection among ot ...

TRAITS, GENES, AND CODING Michael Wheeler 1 THE UNIQUENESS OF GENES Although, in most biological circles, talk of the causes of ...

370 Michael Wheeler latter makes sense is a significant step towards establishing that the former does too. Among other things, ...

Traits, Genes, and Coding 371 for proteins (at least). However (i) is implausible, as we shall see in section 3, so even if (ii) ...

372 Michael Wheeler conditions would allow not only genes and legitimate non-genetic elements, but also illegitimate non-genetic ...

Traits, Genes, and Coding 373 that developmental systems theorists are not denying that there are any inter- esting empirical di ...