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| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | The Future of Scientific Practice: Bio-Techno-Logos |
| Editors | Marta Bertalaso |
| Place of Publication | London |
| Publisher | Routledge Taylor & Francis Group |
| Chapter | 5 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781317316848 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781848935624 |
| Publication status | Published - 2015 |
Publication series
| Name | History and philosophy of technoscience |
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Managing complexity: model-building in systems biology and its challenges for philosophy of science. / MacLeod, Miles Alexander James.
The Future of Scientific Practice: Bio-Techno-Logos. ed. / Marta Bertalaso. London : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2015. (History and philosophy of technoscience).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic › peer-review
TY - CHAP
T1 - Managing complexity: model-building in systems biology and its challenges for philosophy of science
AU - MacLeod, Miles Alexander James
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - In the history of science there have been many conceptual crossings between the bios and téchne realms, as researchers have sought to use biology to inspire design or represent biology in terms of mechanical models. Philosophers have been comfortable describing the analogical relationships and their limitations between technological devices and biological organisms, and setting up the boundaries between them. However, technology and computational simulation are creating new interactions and fusions between bios and téchne in emergent quantitative biological elds like synthetic biology, systems biology and bioengineering that extend to practices of investigation themselves. Technology and the quantitative perspective that comes with it have become means of structuring both scienti c practice and scienti c understanding in novel ways that can address biological complexity .
AB - In the history of science there have been many conceptual crossings between the bios and téchne realms, as researchers have sought to use biology to inspire design or represent biology in terms of mechanical models. Philosophers have been comfortable describing the analogical relationships and their limitations between technological devices and biological organisms, and setting up the boundaries between them. However, technology and computational simulation are creating new interactions and fusions between bios and téchne in emergent quantitative biological elds like synthetic biology, systems biology and bioengineering that extend to practices of investigation themselves. Technology and the quantitative perspective that comes with it have become means of structuring both scienti c practice and scienti c understanding in novel ways that can address biological complexity .
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781848935624
T3 - History and philosophy of technoscience
BT - The Future of Scientific Practice: Bio-Techno-Logos
A2 - Bertalaso, Marta
PB - Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
CY - London
ER -