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  1. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
  2. Year: 2011 Volume: 42
  3. Year: 2011 Volume: 42 Issue: 2
  4. Towards a science of informed matter.
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William Astbury and the biological significance of nucleic acids, 1938-1951.
Physics in the Galtonian sciences of heredity.
Recent opportunities for an increasing role for physical explanations in biology.
Approximations, idealizations and 'experiments' at the physics-biology interface.
Calculating life? Duelling discourses in interdisciplinary systems biology.
Shifting to structures in physics and biology: a prophylactic for promiscuous realism.
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When physics and biology meet: the nanoscale case.
Physics met biology, and the consequence was...
Marginalia, commonplaces, and correspondence: scribal exchange in early modern science.
The Cartesian doctor, François Bayle (1622-1709), on psychosomatic explanation.
Principles, exemplars, and uses of history in early 20th century genetics.
Militarised natural history: tales of the avocet's return to postwar Britain.
Academic and molecular matrices: a study of the transformations of connective tissue research at the University of Manchester (1947-1996).
Studying populations without molecular biology: Aster Models and a new argument against reductionism.
Wholes that cause their parts: organic self-reproduction and the reality of biological teleology.
A functional abc for biotechnology and the dissemination of its progeny.
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Towards a science of informed matter.

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Author Keller, Evelyn Fox
Description Country affiliation: United States Author Affiliation: Keller EF ( Program in Science, Technology, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Building E51-185, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. efkeller@mit.edu)
Abstract Over the last couple of decades, a call has begun to resound in a number of distinct fields of inquiry for a reattachment of form to matter, for an understanding of 'information' as inherently embodied, or, as Jean-Marie Lehn calls it, for a 'science of informed matter.' We hear this call most clearly in chemistry, in cognitive science, in molecular computation, and in robotics-all fields looking to biological processes to ground a new epistemology. The departure from the values of a more traditional epistemological culture can be seen most clearly in changing representations of biological development. Where for many years now, biological discourse has accepted a sharp distinction (borrowed directly from classical computer science) between information and matter, software and hardware, data and program, encoding and enactment, a new discourse has now begun to emerge in which these distinctions have little meaning. Perhaps ironically, much of this shift depends on drawing inspiration from just those biological processes which the discourse of disembodied information was intended to describe.
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ISSN 13698486
Issue Number 2
Volume Number 42
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Journal Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Language English
Publisher Elsevier
Publisher Date 2011-06-01
Publisher Place Great Britain (UK)
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Subject Keyword Discipline Ethics Discipline Social Sciences Discipline History of Medicine Biology History Chemistry Information Theory Knowledge History, 19th Century History, 20th Century History, 21st Century History, Ancient Biography Historical Article Journal Article
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