Some real life processes, including molecular ones, are context-sensitive, in the sense that their outcome depends on side conditions that are most of the times difficult, or impossible, to express fully in advance. In this paper, we survey and discuss a logical account of context-sensitiveness in molecular processes, based on a kind of non-classical logic. This account also allows us to revisit the relationship between logic and philosophy of science (and philosophy of biology, in particular).

Boniolo, G., D'Agostino, M., Piazza, M., Pulcini, G. (2021). Molecular Biology Meets Logic : Context-Sensitiveness in Focus. FOUNDATIONS OF SCIENCE [10.1007/s10699-021-09789-y].

Molecular Biology Meets Logic : Context-Sensitiveness in Focus

Pulcini G.
2021-01-01

Abstract

Some real life processes, including molecular ones, are context-sensitive, in the sense that their outcome depends on side conditions that are most of the times difficult, or impossible, to express fully in advance. In this paper, we survey and discuss a logical account of context-sensitiveness in molecular processes, based on a kind of non-classical logic. This account also allows us to revisit the relationship between logic and philosophy of science (and philosophy of biology, in particular).
2021
Online ahead of print
Rilevanza internazionale
Articolo
Esperti anonimi
Settore M-FIL/02 - LOGICA E FILOSOFIA DELLA SCIENZA
English
Molecular biology
Non-classical logics
Context sensitiveness
Control mechanism
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Boniolo, G., D'Agostino, M., Piazza, M., Pulcini, G. (2021). Molecular Biology Meets Logic : Context-Sensitiveness in Focus. FOUNDATIONS OF SCIENCE [10.1007/s10699-021-09789-y].
Boniolo, G; D'Agostino, M; Piazza, M; Pulcini, G
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