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Broad perspective on collectivity in the life sciences, from microorganisms to human consensus, and the theoretical and empirical opportunities and challenges.

Landscapes of Collectivity in the Life Sciences

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    432 pages

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    12 January 2018

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Broad perspective on collectivity in the life sciences, from microorganisms to human consensus, and the theoretical and empirical opportunities and challenges.Many researchers and scholars in the life sciences have become increasingly critical of the traditional methodological focus on the individual. This volume counters such methodological individualism by exploring recent and influential work in the life sciences that utilizes notions of collectivity, sociality, rich interactions, and emer…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262036856
ISBN-10:0262036851
Author:Snait B. Gissis, Ehud Lamm, Ayelet Shavit
Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:MIT Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:432
Release Date:12 January 2018
Weight:1.01kg
Dimensions:229mm x 178mm x 19mm
Series:Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology
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Landscapes of Collectivity will definitely prove essential for motivating a new look on the topic of collectivity in the life sciences– History and Philosophy of Life Sciences –

Landscapes of Collectivity will definitely prove essential for motivating a new look on the topic of collectivity in the life sciences

—History and Philosophy of Life Sciences

About The Author

Snait B. Gissis

Snait B. Gissis is a Researcher in the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas at Tel Aviv University and the coeditor of Transformations of Lamarckism (MIT Press).Ehud Lamm is Senior Lecturer in the Cohn Institute at Tel Aviv University and the head of the Inter-university PhD program in History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences.Ayelet Shavit is Senior Lecturer in the Departments of Interdisciplinary Studies and Environmental Science and Head of the Philosophy Program at Tel-Hai College, Israel.James R. Griesemer is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Davis.Alfred I. Tauber is the Zoltan Kohn Professor of Medicine, Professor of Philosophy, and Director of the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University.Eva Jablonka is Professor at Tel-Aviv University. She is the coauthor of Evolution in Four Dimensions- Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life and the coeditor of Transformations of Lamarckism- From Subtle Fluids to Molecular Biology, both published by the MIT Press.Ayelet Shavit is Senior Lecturer in the Departments of Interdisciplinary Studies and Environmental Science and Head of the Philosophy Program at Tel-Hai College, Israel.Alfred I. Tauber is the Zoltan Kohn Professor of Medicine, Professor of Philosophy, and Director of the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University.Ehud Lamm is Senior Lecturer in the Cohn Institute at Tel Aviv University and the head of the Inter-university PhD program in History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences.

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