The Complexity-based Explanatory Strategy, Biological Levels, and the Origin of Life
A long-standing debate on the causality of levels in biological explanations has divided philosophers into two camps. The reductionist camp insists on the causal primacy of lower, molecular levels, while the critics point out the inescapable shifting, reciprocity, and circularity of levels across bi...
Main Author: | Slobodan Perović |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Rosenberg & Sellier
2018-12-01
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Series: | Rivista di Estetica |
Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/estetica/3687 |
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