Philosophy of experimental biology / Marcel Weber.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

xvi, 358 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-347) and index.

Introduction -- Reductionism and the nature of explanations --Discovery: Solving biological problems -- Scientific inference: Testing hypotheses -- Experimental systems: A life of their own? -- Model organisms: Of flies and elephants -- Reference and conceptual change: Out of Mendel's garden? -- Developmental biology and the genetic program: Explaining ontogeny -- Scientific realism: In search of the truth.