Reasoning in Biological Discoveries: Essays on Mechanisms, Interfield Relations, and Anomaly Resolution

Long contents List of figures List of tables Acknowledgements Introduction Part I. Biological Mechanisms: 1. Thinking about mechanisms Peter Machamer and Carl F. Craver 2. Discovering mechanisms in neurobiology: the case of spatial memory Carl F. Craver 3. Strategies in the interfield discovery of the mechanism of protein synthesis Carl F. Craver 4. Relations among fields: Mendelian, cytological and molecular mechanisms Part II. Reasoning Strategies: Relating Fields, Resolving Anomalies: 5. Interfield theories Nancy Maull 6. Theory construction in genetics 7. Relations among fields in the evolutionary synthesis 8. Selection type theories Joseph A. Cain 9. Strategies for anomaly resolution: diagnosis and redesign 10. Exemplars, abstractions, and anomalies: representations and theory change in Mendelian and molecular genetics 11. Strategies for anomaly resolution in the case of adaptive mutation Part III. Discovering Mechanisms: Construction, Evaluation, Revision: 12. Strategies for discovering mechanisms: construction, evaluation, revision Bibliography Index.