by Francisco J. Ayala, Theodosius Dobzhansky · FisicalBook · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788434480087
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«Estudios sobre la filosofía de la biología» is a collection of essays edited by Francisco J. Ayala and Theodosius Dobzhansky (Ariel, 1983, paperback).
It brings together the papers presented at the conference on problems of reduction in biology held at Villa Serbelloni (Italy) in 1972. The authors debate to what extent biological phenomena can be reduced to physical and chemical explanations, and examine the relations between philosophy and biology.
It is a translation from English of «Studies in the philosophy of biology: reduction and related problems»; first edition in the Methodos collection, 487 pages.
Aimed at students and specialists in philosophy of science and theoretical biology, interested in reductionism.
Francisco José Ayala Pereda was a Spanish-American evolutionary biologist and philosopher who was a longtime faculty member at the University of California, Irvine, and University of California, Davis.
