The causal structure of scientific theories and the nature of intertheoretic relations
Period | 01-10-2008 to 30-09-2012 |
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Type | Postdoctoral Fellowship |
Fellow | Dr. Bert Leuridan |
Funding agency | Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) |
By means of a formal framework using causal Bayesian nets I will model the causal structure of classical genetics, parts of cytology and parts of molecular genetics. I will also analyse the relations between the respective networks of these theories. This will allow me to approach the debate on intertheoretic reduction in genetics adequately.