Linked bibliography for the SEP article "Experiment in Biology" by Marcel Weber

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Ankeny, R. and S. Leonelli, 2011,“What’s so Special About Model Organisms?”, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (Part A), 42 (2): 313–323. (Scholar)
Avery, O.T., C.M. McLeod, and M. McCarthy, 1944, “Studies on the Chemical Nature of the Substance Inducing Transformation of Pneumococcal Types. Induction of Transformation by a Deoxyribonucleic Acid Fraction Isolated from Pneumococcus Type III”, Journal of Experimental Medicine, 79: 137–58. (Scholar)
Baetu, T., 2016, “The Big Picture: The Problem of Extrapolation in Basic Research”, British Journal for Philosophy of Science, 67: 941–964. (Scholar)
Baumgartner, M., 2009, “Uncovering Deterministic Causal Structures: A Boolean Approach”, Synthese, 170: 71–96. (Scholar)
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Bechtel, W., 2006, Discovering Cell Mechanisms: The Creation of Modern Cell Biology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
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Beirlaen, M., B. Leuridan and F. Van De Putte, 2018, “A Logic for the Discovery of Deterministic Causal Regularities”, Synthese, 195(1): 367–399. (Scholar)
Bird, A., 2007, “Inference to the Only Explanation”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 74: 424–432. (Scholar)
Bridges, C.B., 1914, “Direct Proof through Non-Disjunction That the Sex-Linked Genes of Drosophila Are Borne by the X-Chromosome”, Science, 40: 107–09. (Scholar)
Burian, R. M., 1992, “How the Choice of Experimental Organism Matters: Biological Practices and Discipline Boundaries”, Synthese, 92: 151–166. (Scholar)
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Cartwright, N., 1989, Nature’s Capacities and Their Measurement, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
Clarke, Adele E., and Joan H. Fujimura, (eds.), 1992, The Right Tools for the Job. At Work in Twentieth-century Life Sciences, Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
Collins, H. M., 1985, Changing Order. Replication and Induction in Scientific Practice, London: Sage. (Scholar)
Craver, C., 2007a, Explaining the Brain: Mechanisms and the Mosaic Unity of Neuroscience, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
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Creager, A. N. H., 2002, The Life of a Virus: Tobacco Mosaic Virus as an Experimental Model, 1930–1965, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
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Culp, S., 1994, “Defending Robustness: The Bacterial Mesosome as a Test Case”, in D. Hull, M. Forbes and R. Burian (eds.), PSA 1994, East Lansing: Philosophy of Science Association, 47–57. (Scholar)
–––, 1995, “Objectivity in Experimental Inquiry: Breaking Data-Technique Circles”, Philosophy of Science, 62: 430–450. (Scholar)
Darden, L., 1991, Theory Change in Science: Strategies from Mendelian Genetics, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
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Dobzhansky, T., 1937, Genetics and the Origin of Species, New York: Columbia University Press. (Scholar)
Duhem, P., 1954 [1905], The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory, P. Wiener (trans.), Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
Falk, R., 2009, Genetic Analysis: A History of Genetic Thinking, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
Franklin, A., 1986, The Neglect of Experiment, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
Gehring, W. J., 1998, Master Control Genes in Development and Evolution: The Homeobox Story, New Haven: Yale University Press. (Scholar)
Geison, G. L. and A. N. H. Creager, 1999, Introduction: Research Materials and Model Organisms in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences. Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 30C: 315–318. (Scholar)
Gilbert, G. N. and M. J. Mulkay, 1984, Opening Pandora’s Box: A Sociological Analysis of Scientists’ Discourse, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
Glennan, S., 2005, “Modeling Mechanisms”, Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 36: 443–464. (Scholar)
Goldman, A., 1999, Knowledge in a Social World, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
Graßhoff, G., 2011, “Inferences to Causal Relevance From Experiments”, in: D. Dieks, W. J. González, S. Hartmann, T. Uebel and M. Weber (2011), Explanation, Prediction and Confirmation (The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective, Volume 2), Berlin: Springer, 167–182. (Scholar)
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Holmes, F. L., 2001, Meselson, Stahl, and the Replication of DNA: A History of ‘The Most Beautiful Experiment in Biology’, New Haven: Yale University Press. (Scholar)
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Hull, D., 1988, Science as a Process: An Evolutionary Account of the Social and Conceptual Development of Science, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
Kohler, R. E., 1994, Lords of the Fly. Drosophila Genetics and the Experimental Life, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
Kuhn, T. S., 1970, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
Lederman, M. and R. M. Burian, 1993, “Introduction: The Right Organism for the Job”, Journal of the History of Biology, 26: 235–237. (Scholar)
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Leuridan, B., 2012, “Three Problems for the Mutual Manipulability Account of Constitutive Relevance in Mechanisms”, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 63 (2):399–427. (Scholar)
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