Genomic Programs as Mechanism Schemas: A Non-Reductionist Interpretation
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 63 (3):649-671 (2012)
| Abstract | In this article, I argue that genomic programs are not substitutes for multi-causal molecular mechanistic explanations of inheritance, but abstract representations of the same sort as mechanism schemas already described in the philosophical literature. On this account, the program analogy is not reductionistic and does not ignore or underestimate the active contribution of epigenetic elements to phenotypes and development. Rather, genomic program representations specifically highlight the genomic determinants of inheritance and their organizational features at work in the wider context of the mechanisms of genome expression | |||||||||
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