Biological robustness: design, organization and mechanisms

Maria Serban; Sara Green

Biological robustness: design, organization and mechanisms

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Abstract

Recent engineering-based modelling efforts in systems biology suggest that some forms of biological robustness depend on structural features of the internal organization of living systems. To explain such features, abstract representations of patterns of organization or design principles within the framework of control theory have been proposed. We characterize such model-based explanations as structural-causal explanations and situate our account in the broader philosophical debate about explanation in biology.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Living Machines
Subtitle of host publication	Philosophical and Biological Perspectives
Editors	Maria Serban, Sune Holm
Publisher	Routledge
Publication status	Published - 2020

Maria Serban
- M.Serbanuea.acuk
- School of Politics, Philosophy and Area Studies - Lecturer in Philosophy
- Philosophy - Lecturer in Philosophy
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Biological robustness: design, organization and mechanisms

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