15 décembre 2020
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Réseau ALEA, « C. Wolfe : "Chance between Holism and Reductionism: Tensions in the Conceptualisation of Life" », ALEA, ID : 10670/1.1kag1y
Charles Wolfe, "Chance between Holism and Reductionism: Tensions in the Conceptualisation of Life" in Réseau ALEA / ALEA Network [online], 2020 The juxtaposition of chance with the more familiar pair of holism and reductionism in biology may at first sight seem rather surprising. Chance is both an ancient philosophical problem, as addressed – quite differently – by Aristotle, Lucretius or Diderot (Gigandet 2002, Wolfe 2010c, Pépin, n.d.); a concept closely linked to the emergence of ‘mode...