Daniel S. Brooks, James DiFrisco, and William C. Wimsatt (Eds.): Levels of Organization in the Biological Sciences: MIT Press: Cambridge, MA, 2021, 336 pp., $60.000 (paperback), ISBN 9780262045339.

Edited by Dan Brooks, James DiFrisco, and Bill Wimsatt, I Levels of Organization in the Biological Sciences i grew out of a workshop held at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research in 2018. Yet Angela Potochnik remains unconvinced and advances a detailed criticism of the notion of levels or - more strikingly - a criticism of philosophers' various attempts to defend this idea. In his contribution, Dan Brooks portrays the concept of levels as a "doctrine" in biology - since it figures so prominently in textbooks and other scientific sources - as well as a "tool" in biology. [Extracted from the article]

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