3D Modeling and organicism in development and Evo-devo

ISHPSSB 2011 MEETING, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA Session: Evo-devo, explanatory integration, and physical science Organizer: Alan Love Two issues are often neglected in the historical and philosophical analysis of developmental biology and Evo-devo: the role of visual representations in embryology, and the organicist approach to development and evolution. On the one hand, despite the […]

3D Modelling, organicism and mechanical explanation in contemporary developmental biology and evo-devo.

Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP). Third Biennial Conference University of Exeter, UK 22-24 June 2011 Despite the role of models in scientific practice is increasingly being recognized, modelling in developmental biology and evo-devo has just recently started to be explored (Laubichler & Müller 2007). In particular, few attention has been paid to three-dimensional […]

L’adaptation des organes et la biophysique de leur développement dans la théorie de l’évolution

3ème congrès de la Société de philosophie des sciences Symposium “Enjeux philosophiques de la pluralité des explications en biologie” 12/11/2009. Paris, France. La reconnaissance du rôle de la morphogénèse dans la compréhension de la forme biologique et de sa transformation évolutive a vécu un long éclipse après le triomphe de la Synthèse Moderne. Avec la […]

Forma y función en evo-devo

Arantza Etxeberria y Laura Nuño de la Rosa Seminario Funciones, Grupo de Filosofía de la Biología, Dpto. de Lógica y Filosofía de la Ciencia, UPV/EHU, San Sebastián/Donostia 11/06/2010 Mientras la filosofía de la biología ha privilegiado una noción de función como uso, la reivindicación estructuralista de la forma parece conducir, en ocasiones, al olvido de […]