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Monod's conception of chance: Its diversity and relevance today
- Source :
- Comptes Rendus Biologies. 338:406-412
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2015.
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Abstract
- In his famous book Le hasard et la necessite (1970), Monod claims that natural evolution is based on the interplay between chance and necessity bringing about adaptive evolutionary change. This article addresses a set of related questions about Monod's conception of chance: what does he mean when he uses the term “chance”? Does he invoke one or many different concepts of chance? What are the implications of his conception about the issue of the deterministic or indeterministic nature of the biological world? Is Monod's view of what chance is relevant in contemporary biology? This paper, structured by these four questions, aims at providing a synthetic study of the way Monod conceptualizes chance, particularly highlighting the metaphysical and epistemological implications of his conception and its value in biology today.
- Subjects :
- Value (ethics)
General Immunology and Microbiology
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Metaphysics
General Medicine
Variation (game tree)
History, 20th Century
Biological Evolution
Determinism
Indeterminism
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Epistemology
Humans
Relevance (law)
Natural (music)
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Molecular Biology
Diversity (politics)
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Details
- ISSN :
- 16310691
- Volume :
- 338
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Comptes Rendus Biologies
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....224944b73066586118387bfad3031efc