Philosophy of Experimental Biology

Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology

by Marcel Weber

Exploring central philosophical issues concerning scientific research in modern experimental biology, this book clarifies the strategies, concepts, reasoning, approaches, tools, models and experimental systems deployed by researchers. It also integrates recent developments in historical scholarship, in particular, the New Experimentalism, making this work of interest to philosophers and historians of science as well as to biological researchers.

Genres: Philosophy

376 pages, Hardcover

First published August 30, 2004