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In this chapter I deal with the last of the alleged contradistinctions between holism and reductionism in biology, namely the one between functional explanations (holism) and causal explanations (reductionism).
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Looijen, R.C. (2000). Functional Explanations in Biology. In: Holism and Reductionism in Biology and Ecology. Episteme, vol 23. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9560-5_6
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