Article ID: CBB000063896

Material models in biology (1990)

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Description “I explore the boundary between the propositional and non-propositional sides of biological theory, drawing on three cases: Grinnell's remnant models of faunas, Wright's path analysis, and Weismannism's role in the generalization of evolutionary theory. I propose a picture of material model-building in biology in which manipulated systems of material objects function as theoretical models. In each of the cases, material systems such as diagrams play important generative as well as presentational roles.” From author's abstract.


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Authors & Contributors
Weismann, August
Risler, Helmut
Griesemer, James R.
Churchill, Frederick B.
Grodwohl, Jean-Baptiste
Pereira Martins, Lilian Al-Chueyr
Journals
Journal of the History of Biology
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Biology and Philosophy
Freiburger Universitätsblätter
Filosofia e História da Biologia
Biological Theory
Publishers
University of California, Davis
Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg
Universitätsbibliothek
Thoemmes
Harvard University Press
American Philosophical Society
Concepts
Biology
Evolution
Genetics
Explanation; hypotheses; theories
Population genetics
Collected correspondence
People
Weismann, August
Wright, Sewall
Vries, Hugo Marie de
Fisher, Ronald Aylmer
Morgan, Thomas Hunt
Grinnell, Joseph
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
Places
United States
Moscow (Russia)
Germany
Europe
Great Britain
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