Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Daniel S. Brooks, James DiFrisco, and William C. Wimsatt (Eds.): Levels of Organization in the Biological Sciences

MIT Press: Cambridge, MA, 2021, 336 pp., $60.000 (paperback), ISBN 9780262045339

  • Book review
  • Published:
Journal for General Philosophy of Science Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Craver, Carl F., and William Bechtel. 2007. Top-down causation without top-down causes. Biology & Philosophy 22: 547–563.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kim, Jaegwon. 1998. Mind in a physical world: An essay on the mind-body problem and mental causation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Oppenheim, Paul, and Hilary Putnam. 1958. Unity of science as a working hypothesis. In Concepts, theories, and the mind-body problem, eds. Herbert Feigl, Michael Scriven, and Grover Maxwell, 3–36. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Potochnik, Angela, and Brian McGill. 2012. The limitations of hierarchical organization. Philosophy of Science 79: 120–140.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Povich, Mark, and Carl F. Craver. 2018. Mechanistic levels, reduction, and emergence. In The Routledge handbook of mechanisms and mechanical philosophy, eds. Stuart Glennan, and Phyllis Illari, 185–197. New York: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Philosophy, University of Alberta, 2-40 Assiniboia Hall, AB T6G2E7, Edmonton, Canada

    Ingo Brigandt

Authors
  1. Ingo Brigandt
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Ingo Brigandt.

Additional information

Publisher’s Note

Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Brigandt, I. Daniel S. Brooks, James DiFrisco, and William C. Wimsatt (Eds.): Levels of Organization in the Biological Sciences. J Gen Philos Sci 54, 353–356 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10838-022-09632-3

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10838-022-09632-3

Search

Navigation