La Explicación en Biologíaentre Leyes y Modelos Explicativos

  1. Víctor José Luque Martín
Book:
VII Conference of the Spanish Society for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science: Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-20 July 2012
  1. Concha Martínez Vidal (dir. congr.)
  2. José L. Falguera López (dir. congr.)
  3. José M. Sagüillo (dir. congr.)
  4. Víctor M. Verdejo Aparicio (dir. congr.)
  5. Martín Pereira Fariña (dir. congr.)

Publisher: Servicio de Publicaciones e Intercambio Científico ; Universidad de Santiago de Compostela

ISBN: 978-84-9887-939-1

Year of publication: 2012

Pages: 437-443

Congress: Sociedad de Lógica, Metodología y Filosofía de la Ciencia en España. Congreso (7. 2012. Santiago de Compostela)

Type: Conference paper

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Abstract

The lack of consensus on the existence of empirical laws in biology, shows that biologist have been dedicating their time to make (essentially mathematical) models to express biological facts. The challenge is to find out how models explain. Thus, this paper analyzes Alisa Bokulich’s explanatory model known as model explanation, and shows a specific example in biology with the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium model.

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