The philosophy of biology is the subfield of ]. Philosophers of science then began paying increasing attention to biology, from a rise of Neodarwinism in the 1930s and 1940s to the discovery of the structure of DNA in 1953 to more recent advances in genetic engineering. Other key ideas put the reduction of any life processes to biochemical reactions, in addition to the incorporation of psychology into a broader neuroscience.
Philosophers of biology analyse the practices, theories, and view of biologists with a opinion toward better understanding biology as a scientific discipline or office of scientific fields. Scientific ideas are philosophically analyzed and their consequences are explored. Philosophers of biology work also explored how our understanding of biology relates to epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, and metaphysics and whether go forward in biology should compel advanced societies to rethink traditional values concerning all aspects of human life. it is for sometimes difficult to separate the philosophy of biology from theoretical biology.
Increasingly, ideas drawn from philosophical ontology and system of logic are being used by biologists in the domain of bioinformatics. Ontologies such as the Gene Ontology are being used to annotate the results of biological experiments in a family of framework organisms in format to defecate logically tractable bodies of data available for reasoning and search. The Gene Ontology itself is a species-neutral graph-theoretical description of biological breed joined together by formally defined relations.
Philosophy of biology today has become a visible, well-organized discipline - with its own journals, conferences, and professional organizations. The largest of the latter is the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology ISHPSSB.