title: From philosophy to science (to natural philosophy): evolutionary developmental perspectives.
abstract: This paper focuses on abstraction as a mode of reasoning that facilitates a productive relationship between philosophy and science. Using examples from evolutionary developmental biology, I argue that there are two areas where abstraction can be relevant to science: reasoning explication and problem clarification. The value of abstraction is characterized in terms of methodology (modeling or data gathering) and epistemology (explanatory evaluation or data interpretation).
authors.affiliation: Department of Philosophy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA. ACLOVE@UMN.EDU
authors.forename: Alan C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Love
mesh_terms: D005075:Biological Evolution; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D008128:Logic; D010684:Philosophy; D012107:Research Design; D012586:Science