A System Approach to Cancer. From Things to Relations

Abstract

“I think that SB will still play an important role in appreciating, first of all, the explanatory relevance of systemic perspectives that hopefully will allow us to avoid reductionist and relativist perspectives or excessive simplifications driven by mere pluralistic accounts of human understanding and scientific knowledge. Therefore the irreducibility of understanding typical of different disciplines is no obstacle but a condition of an integration process of different kinds of human understanding. Moving from physics and chemistry to biological or life sciences more generally, we aim to make explicit the explanatory categories that structure explanations in these fields and to clarify the systemic and relational features of any epistemology and their specificity in the different fields.”.