Is the biological reducible to the physical?: an overall critical analysis of the concept of reduction in biology

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Örs, Yaman
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Theory of knowledge, Philosophy and science
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/11245
Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

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Y. Örs, “ Is the biological reducible to the physical?: an overall critical analysis of the concept of reduction in biology,” Middle East Technical University, 1991.
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