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Autor:
Oliver M. Lean
Publikováno v:
Synthese. 199:11587-11608
Bio-ontologies are digital frameworks for handling biological and biomedical data. They consist of theoretical entities and relations with explicitly defined logical structures and precise definitions, whose purpose is to provide a shared language fo
Autor:
Oliver M. Lean
Publikováno v:
Philosophy of Science : official journal of the Philosophy of Science Association, Vol. 87, no.January 2020, p. 70-90 (2020)
Binding specificity is a centrally important concept in molecular biology, yet it has received little philosophical attention. Here I aim to remedy this by analyzing binding specificity as a causal property. I focus on the concept’s role in drug de
Publikováno v:
The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
Empirical philosophers of science aim to base their philosophical theories on observations of scientific practice. But since there is far too much science to observe it all, how can we form and test hypotheses about science that are sufficiently rigo
How analyzing scientific practices can alter debates on the relationship between science and reality Numerous scholarly works focus solely on scientific metaphysics or biological practice, but few attempt to bridge the two subjects. This volume, the
Autor:
Oliver M. Lean
Publikováno v:
Chemical arbitrariness and the causal role of molecular adapters, Vol. 78, no.101180, p. 1-8 (2019)
Jacques Monod (1971) argued that certain molecular processes rely critically on the property of chemical arbitrariness, which he claimed allows those processes to “transcend the laws of chemistry”. It seems natural, as some philosophers have done
Autor:
Oliver M. Lean
Publikováno v:
Biology & Philosophy
Shannon information is commonly assumed to be the wrong way in which to conceive of information in most biological contexts. Since the theory deals only in correlations between systems, the argument goes, it can apply to any and all causal interactio