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Functional Explanations in Biology

  • Looijen R
Springer Netherlands, (2000), 107-136
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-015-9560-5_6
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Abstract

In this chapter I deal with the last of the alleged contradistinctions between holism and reductionism in biology, namely the one between functional explanations (holism) and causal explanations (reductionism).

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Looijen, R. C. (2000). Functional Explanations in Biology. In Holism and Reductionism in Biology and Ecology (pp. 107–136). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9560-5_6

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