《Cycles of Contingency》是2003年3月The MIT Press出版的圖書，作者是Susan Oyama、Paul E. Griffiths、Russell D. Gray。
基本介紹
- 中文名：Cycles of Contingency
- 作者：Susan Oyama、Paul E. Griffiths、Russell D. Gray
- 出版社：The MIT Press
- ISBN：9780262650632
內容簡介,作者簡介,
內容簡介
The nature/nurture debate is not dead. Dichotomous views of development still underlie many fundamental debates in the biological and social sciences. Developmental systems theory (DST) offers a new conceptual framework with which to resolve such debates. DST views ontogeny as contingent cycles of interaction among a varied set of developmental resources, no one of which controls the process. These factors include DNA, cellular and organismic structure, and social and ecological interactions. DST has excited interest from a wide range of researchers, from molecular biologists to anthropologists, because of its ability to integrate evolutionary theory and other disciplines without falling into traditional oppositions.
The book provides historical background to DST, recent theoretical findings on the mechanisms of heredity, applications of the DST framework to behavioral development, implications of DST for the philosophy of biology, and critical reactions to DST.
作者簡介
Susan Oyama is Professor of Psychology, Emerita, at John Jay College, and at the CUNY Graduate Center, New York City.
Paul E. Griffiths is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh.
Russell D. Gray is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Auckland.
