Eichmann, Klaus
The Network Collective
1. Autobiographical note
Part I. Scientific Knowledge, Delusive or Deductive
2. Realism, constructivism, and the naiveté of the experimental scientist
3. Beyond underdeterminism: Popper, Kuhn, et al.
4. The anthropology of science: Ludwik Fleck et al.
5. The science wars
Part II. Origins, Rise, and Fall of the Network Paradigm
6. The immune system, pre-network paradigms
7. The necessity for an interactive theory of immunity
8. Proto-ideas of the network theory: antibody self-regulation, idiotypy, the brain analogy, and cybernetics
9. The idiotypic network theory
10. The T cell receptor puzzle
11. Suppression turned idiotypic
12. Network mannerism
13. Post-network immunology: Idiotypic network continues at the bedside
14. Hindsight
Part III. Science between Fact and Fiction
15. The fictional nature of scientific notions
16. Fiction turned fact: The case of antibodies
17. The enticing network: Fiction forever
18. Logic and laws in life science
Keywords: SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology / General SCI008000
- Author(s)
- Eichmann, Klaus
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2008
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Natural Sciences
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9783764383732