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From Reductionism to Instrumentalism?

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What the Philosophy of Biology Is

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Reductionism in biology never really recovered from chapter one of David Hull’s Philosophy of Biological Science.1

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  1. Philosophy University of California, Riverside, USA

    Alexander Rosenberg

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  1. University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

    Michael Ruse

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Rosenberg, A. (1989). From Reductionism to Instrumentalism?. In: Ruse, M. (eds) What the Philosophy of Biology Is. Nijhoff International Philosophy Series, vol 32. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1169-7_13

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