Philosophy of Systems Biology

Sara Green holds a PhD degree in Science Studies from Aarhus University on the topic: “Systems Biology and the Quest for General Principles”. Her research focuses on the philosophical implications of new strategies in the life sciences with special focus on systems biology and systems medicine. Sara was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, in 2014/2015, and is now post.doc. at the Department of Science Education, University of Copenhagen.

• 1. Systems Biology: Negotiating between Holism and Reductionism (William Bechtel).- 2. A System Approach to Cancer. From Things to Relations (Marta Bertolaso).- 3. Systems Biology in the Broad Sense (Fred C. Boogerd).- 4. Enactments of Systems Biology (Annamaria Carusi).- 5. Systems Biology, Choices Arising (Eric H. Davidson).- 6. An Affinity to Theories in Biology (Manfred Drack).- 7. Interdisciplinarity, Philosophy and Systems Biology (Melinda Bonnie Fagan).- 8. Problems in Mathematizing Systems Biology (Gabriele Gramelsberger).- 9. Towards a Methodology for Systems Biology (Fridolin Gross).- 10. Exploring the Metabolic Marketplace through the Lens of Systems Biology (Jan-Hendrik S. Hofmeyr).- 11. Moving from Genetics to Systems Biology (Stefan Hohmann).- 12. The Importance of Being Dynamic: Systems Biology beyond the Hairball (Johannes Jaeger).- 13. Extracting Phenomena, Integrating Explanations, and Styling Representations: Some Frontiers for Philosophizing about Biology (Nicholaos Jones).- 14. Systems Biology: Science or Technoscience? (Karen Kastenhofer).- 15. Biological Complexity and the need for Computational Approaches (Hiroaki Kitano).- 16. Systems Biology through the Concept of Emergence (Alexey Kolodkin).- 17. From Biological Research to a Philosophy of Systems Biology: the Ground Covered and some Challenges that lie Ahead, Constantinos Mekios).- 18. Complexity Organizing Principles: Prerequisites for Life (Mihajlo Mesarović).- 19. Systems Biology Modeling Practices: Reflections of a Philosopher-Ethnographer (Nancy J. Nersessian).- 20. Systems Biology beyond the genome (Denis Noble).- 21. A view on Systems Biology beyond Scale and Method (Isabelle S. Peter).- 22. From a Fascination with Arrow Diagrams to Witnessing a Tipping Point in Biology (Eberhard O. Voit).- 23. From Microscopes to Macroscopes: Advancing Biomedical Research through Systems Approaches (Olaf Wolkenhauer).