3rd Queensland Biohumanities Conference:
Idealization, Mechanism and Reduction:
New Directions in the Philosophy of Biology

(15-16th December, 2006).

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Idealization:

Mechanism:

Reduction:

  • Keynote address: Alexander Rosenberg (Duke): Darwinian Reductionism
  • Karola Stotz (Indiana): From genetics to postgenomics: a case for antireductionism (not recorded)
  • Stephen Downes (Utah): Reductionism in human biology - when, why, and how much (not recorded)
  • Ingo Brigandt (Alberta): Non-reductionism - explanation and methodology in developmental
    biology
    (not recorded)

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