Levels of organization: a deflationary account
Levels of organization: a deflationary account
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组织层次：通货紧缩账户
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2015
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M. Eronen
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M. Eronen
组织层次的思想在生命科学的哲学中起着核心作用。在这篇文章中，我首先考察了激励组织层级的解释目标。然后，我指出，最先进的和科学上可信的组织水平的描述，即贝克特尔和克雷弗提出的机制水平的描述，从根本上是有问题的。最后，我认为，可以通过采取通货紧缩的方法来实现解释性目标，即组织的层级让位于更明确和更基本的概念，如规模和组成。
The idea of levels of organization plays a central role in the philosophy of the life sciences. In this article, I first examine the explanatory goals that have motivated accounts of levels of organization. I then show that the most state-of-the-art and scientifically plausible account of levels of organization, the account of levels of mechanism proposed by Bechtel and Craver, is fundamentally problematic. Finally, I argue that the explanatory goals can be reached by adopting a deflationary approach, where levels of organization give way to more well-defined and fundamental notions, such as scale and composition.