Séminaire de Biologie Théorique, CREA (Centre de Recherche en Epistémologie Appliquée)– CNRS / Polytechnique, París. Despite its radical importance in the development of organicism, embryology remains philosophically underexplored as a theoretical and empirical resource to clarify the nature of organisms. In my presentation I will discuss how developmental biology can help develop the organizational definition […]
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ISHPSSB 2009 Meeting, Brisbane, Australia Session: Biological Theory and Conceptual Power: Studies in Scientific Practice | Chair: Kevin S. Amidon Developmental biology has been mainly reduced to developmental genetics, neglecting the physico-chemical properties of cells and tissues and the emergent dynamics of pattern formation. However, in the last years, biophysics has arisen as a new […]
La forma orgánica se ha presentado desde la Grecia clásica como un factum problemático cuya entidad ha tratado de resolverse desde dos posicionamientos opuestos: la reducción de la forma biológica a mera apariencia resultante de la interacción mecánica de los elementos que la componen, y la defensa de una legalidad rectora de las morfologías orgánicas […]
Laura Nuño de la Rosa 