『Data-Centric Biology: A Philosophical Study』目次

Sabina Leonelli
(2016年11月刊行, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, iv+275 pp., ISBN:978-0-226-41647-2 [pbk] → 版元ページ


【目次】
Introduction 1

Part One: Data Journeys

1  Making Data Travel: Technology and Expertise 13

1.1 The Rise of Online Databases in Biology 17
1.2 Packaging Data for Travel 24
1.3 The Emerging Power of Database Curators 31
1.4 Data Journeys and Other Metaphors of Travel 38

2 Managing Data Journeys: Social Structures 45

2.1  The Institutionalization of Data Packaging 46
2.2  Centralization, Dissent, and Epistemic Diversity 52
2.3 Open Data as Global Commodities 56
2.4 Valuing Data 63

Part Two: Data-Centric Science

3 What Counts as Data? 69

3.1 Data in the Philosophy of Science 71
3.2  A Relational Framework 77
3.3 The Nonlocality of Data 84
3.4 Packaging and Modeling 88

4 What Counts as Experiment? 93

4.1 Capturing Embodied Knowledge 95
4.2 When Standards Are Not Enough 100
4.3 Distributed Reasoning in Data Journeys 106
4.4 Dreams of Automation and Replicability 111

5 What Counts as Theory? 114

5.1 Classifying Data for Travel 115
5.2 Bio-Ontologies as Classificatory Theories 121
5.3 The Epistemic Role of Classification 127
5.4 Features of Classificatory Theories 130
5.5 Theory in Data-Centric Science 135

Part Three: Implications for Biology and Philosophy

6 Researching Life in the Digital Age 141

6.1 Varieties of Data Integration, Different Ways to Understand Organisms 143
6.2 The Impact of Data Centrism: Dangers and Exclusions 160
6.3  The Novelty of Data Centrism: Opportunities and Future Developments 169

7 Handling Data to Produce Knowledge 176

7.1 Problematizing Context 179
7.2 From Contexts to Situations 181
7.3 Situating Data in the Digital Age 186


Conclusion 193
Acknowledgments 199
Notes 203
Bibliography 237
Index 263