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14M arc J. R atcliff, Genèse d’une Découverte: La Division des Infusoires , Paris: Publication scientifiques du Museum national d’histoire naturelle, 2016, 751 pp., 45 € (review)History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 40 (3): 46. 2018.
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268La vie en biologie : enjeux et problèmes d’une définition, usages du termePhilosophie 136 (1): 67-94. 2017.Les efforts pour définir la vie se sont intensifiés ces dernières années dans les sciences biologiques. Partant d’une interrogation sur les motivations qui président à ces efforts, nous montrons que l’on doit distinguer deux projets qui s’exposent à des difficultés philosophiques très différentes : ceux présentant l’obtention d’une définition de la vie comme un moyen nécessaire pour l’enquête scientifique ; ceux qui pensent celle-ci comme une fin. Puis nous analysons les usages qui sont faits du…Read more
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14Michael Ruse, The Gaïa hypothesis: science on a pagan planet: University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2013, 272 pp, $26.00 (review)History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 36 (1): 149-151. 2014.This article on the epistemology of computational models stems from an analysis of the Gaïa hypothesis. It begins with James Kirchner’s criticisms of the central computational model of GH: Daisyworld. Among other things, the model has been criticized for being too abstract, describing fictional entities and trying to answer counterfactual questions. For these reasons the model has been considered not testable and therefore not legitimate in science, and in any case not very interesting since it …Read more
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34What good are abstract and what-if models? Lessons from the Gaïa hypothesisHistory and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 36 (1): 16-41. 2014.This article on the epistemology of computational models stems from an analysis of the Gaia hypothesis (GH). It begins with James Kirchner’s criticisms of the central computational model of GH: Daisyworld. Among other things, the model has been criticized for being too abstract, describing fictional entities (fictive daisies on an imaginary planet) and trying to answer counterfactual (what-if) questions (how would a planet look like if life had no influence on it?). For these reasons the model has …Read more
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