Serban, Maria and Green, Sara (2019) Biological robustness: design, organization, and mechanisms. [Preprint]
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Abstract
Recent engineering-based modelling efforts in systems biology suggest that some forms of biological robustness depend on relational features of the organization of living systems. To explain such features, abstract representations of patterns of organization or design principles within the framework of control theory have been proposed. We characterize the results of such model-based practices as structural-causal explanations and situate our account in the broader philosophical debate about explanation in biology.
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| Keywords: | robustness, design, mechanisms, chemotaxis, engineering | |||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Biology Specific Sciences > Biology > Molecular Biology/Genetics General Issues > Explanation General Issues > Models and Idealization |
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| Depositing User: | Dr. Maria Serban | |||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 24 Jul 2019 02:42 | |||||||||
| Last Modified: | 24 Jul 2019 02:42 | |||||||||
| Item ID: | 16251 | |||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Biology Specific Sciences > Biology > Molecular Biology/Genetics General Issues > Explanation General Issues > Models and Idealization |
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| Date: | 2019 | |||||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/16251 |
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