Possible Life: The Philosophical Significance of Extending Biology

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Peer reviewed articles (12)

Deidealization: No Easy Reversals

Author(s): Tarja Knuuttila, Mary S. Morgan
Published in: Philosophy of Science, 86(4), 2019, ISSN 0031-8248
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.1086/704975

Holistic idealization: An artifactual standpoint

Author(s): Natalia Carrillo, Tarja Knuuttila
Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A,, 91, 2022, Page(s) 49-59, ISSN 0039-3681
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2021.10.009

Could We Really Be Made of Swiss Cheese? Xenobiology as an Engineering Epistemology for Biological Realization

Author(s): Rami Koskinen
Published in: ChemBioChem, 21/18, 2020, Page(s) 2591-2594, ISSN 1439-4227
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/cbic.202000063

Exploring biological possibility through synthetic biology

Author(s): Tero Ijäs, Rami Koskinen
Published in: European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 11, 2021, ISSN 1879-4912
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s13194-021-00364-7

Synthetic fictions: turning imagined biological systems into concrete ones

Author(s): Tarja Knuuttila, Rami Koskinen
Published in: Synthese, 2019, ISSN 0039-7857
Publisher: D. Reidel Pub. Co.
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-020-02567-6

Models as Epistemic Artifacts for Scientific Reasoning in Science Education Research

Author(s): Tarja Knuuttila, Marvin Rost
Published in: Education Sciences, 12(4), 2022, ISSN 2227-7102
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/educsci12040276

Epistemic artifacts and the modal dimension of modeling

Author(s): Tarja Knuuttila
Published in: European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 11/3, 2021, ISSN 1879-4912
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s13194-021-00374-5

Biological Control Variously Materialized: Modeling, Experimentation and Exploration in Multiple Media

Author(s): Tarja Knuuttila, Andrea Loettgers
Published in: Perspectives on Science, 29 (4), 2021, Page(s) 468–492, ISSN 1063-6145
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.1162/posc_a_00379

Modal inferences in science: a tale of two epistemologies.

Author(s): Ilmari Hirvonen, Rami Koskinen, Ilkka Pättiniemi
Published in: Synthese, 2021, ISSN 0039-7857
Publisher: D. Reidel Pub. Co.
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-021-03399-8

The vaccinologist’s “dirty little secret”: a better understanding of structure-function relationships of viral immunogens might advance rational HIV vaccine design

Author(s): Gregor P. Greslehner
Published in: Archives of Virology, 2021, Page(s) 1297-1303, ISSN 0304-8608
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s00705-021-04982-7

Modelling gene regulation: (De)compositional and template-based strategies

Author(s): Tarja Knuuttilaa, Vivette García Deisterb
Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 77, 2020, Page(s) 101-111, ISSN 0039-3681
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2017.11.002

Multiple Realizability and Biological Modality

Author(s): Rami Koskinen
Published in: Philosophy of Science, 86(5), 2019, ISSN 0031-8248
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.1086/705478

Book chapters (3)

An Artifactual Perspective on Idealization: Constant Capacitance and the Hodgkin and Huxley Model

Author(s): Knuuttila, Tarja; Carrillo, Natalia
Published in: Models and Idealizations in Science, 2021, ISBN 978-3-030-65801-4
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4483156

Models, Fictions and Artifacts

Author(s): Knuuttila, Tarja
Published in: Language and Scientific Research, 1, 2021, ISBN 978-3-030-60536-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4478276

Magnetized Memories: Analogies and Templates in Model Transfer

Author(s): Tarja Knuuttila, Andrea Loettgers
Published in: Living Machines? Philosophical Perspectives on the Engineering Approach in Biology., 2020, ISBN 9780815380788
Publisher: Routledge