Biological modalities

Diplôme Thèse Biological modalities eng 2017-03-20 author Huber Maximilian 786841 director Weber Marcel 0000-0003-2142-5043 659406 10.13097/archive-ouverte/unige:93135 urn:nbn:ch:unige-931358 L. 878 Biological modalities (e.g., biological possibility, necessity and counterfactuality) play an important explanatory role in biological practice. However, biological modalities lack truth conditions and the inferential relationship between biological and other modalities is unclear. This thesis addresses these problems, first, by improving upon Daniel Dennett's Library of Mendel. Second, a family of modal logics is introduced. In the simplest model, states are interpreted as codons, the binary relation is interpreted as single substitution mutation and the valuation induces a partition of blocks of codons that code for some amino acid. In addition, the proposed framework allows for a grading of biological possibility and captures various competing notions of biological possibility. Applications include a model checker and a lawless Lewis-style semantics for biological counterfactuals. In short, this thesis lays the groundwork for a theory of biological modalities. Biological modalities Biological possibility Biological necessity Biological counterfactuality Graded modalities Modal logic Dennett Lewis Philosophy of biology Bioinformatics Dewey 100/501 Swiss National Science Foundation 140885 Counterfactual reasoning in biology CH Swiss National Science Foundation 158599 A modal logic for biological modalities and its applications CH 89 Département de philosophie 3G false 750f4a96-ec28-41df-adfb-516583656104 Thesis Public MHuber_PhD_FINAL.pdf 5482416 application/pdf openAccess Faculté des lettres / Département de philosophie

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