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dc.contributor.authorPérez Escobar, José Antonio
dc.contributor.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-3728-6896
dc.coverage.spatialCanadá
dc.date.accessioned2024-12-10T12:03:28Z
dc.date.available2024-12-10T12:03:28Z
dc.date.issued2020-01-03
dc.description.abstractMathematical modelling is a group of techniques that have been making their way into diverse biological fields. The incipient roles of these techniques in biology are transforming the scientific practice, and it is believed that the mathematization of biology is progressively putting it in line with the standards of rigor of the physical sciences. While the first statement is true, the second does not necessarily follow from it. In this paper, I will challenge the idea that mathematics brings biology closer to the standards of physics by showing how teleological notions, common in biology but not in today’s physics, coexist and interact with modelling techniques in a very idiosyncratic scientific practice. To this end, I will explore modelling techniques of the so-called brain’s internal compass, a component of the “brain GPS system,” in computational neuroscience.en
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dc.identifier.citationPérez-Escobar, J.A. (2020). Mathematical modelling and teleology in biology. In M. Zack and D. Schlimm (Eds.), Research in History and Philosophy of Mathematics (pp. 69-82). Cham, Switzerland: Springer (Birkhäuser). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31298-5_4
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31298-5_4
dc.identifier.isbn978-3-030-31196-4
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/24791
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherBirkhäuser, Cham
dc.relation.centerFacultades y escuelas::Facultad de Filosofía
dc.relation.congressCanadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics
dc.relation.departmentLógica, Historia y Filosofía de la Ciencia
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es
dc.subject11 Lógica
dc.subject72 Filosofía::7205 Filosofía de la Ciencia
dc.titleMathematical modelling and teleology in biologyen
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