The Philosophy of Biology: An Episodic HistoryCambridge University Press, 2004. 8. 2. Is life different from the non-living? If so, how? And how, in that case, does biology as the study of living things differ from other sciences? These questions are traced through an exploration of episodes in the history of biology and philosophy. The book begins with Aristotle, then moves on to Descartes, comparing his position with that of Harvey. In the eighteenth century the authors consider Buffon and Kant. In the nineteenth century the authors examine the Cuvier-Geoffroy debate, pre-Darwinian geology and natural theology, Darwin and the transition from Darwin to the revival of Mendelism. Two chapters deal with the evolutionary synthesis and such questions as the species problem, the reducibility or otherwise of biology to physics and chemistry, and the problem of biological explanation in terms of function and teleology. The final chapters reflect on the implications of the philosophy of biology for philosophy of science in general. |
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... Cuvier–Geoffroy debate, pre-Darwinian geology and natural theology, Darwin, and the transition from Darwin to the revival of Mendelism. Two chapters on the twentieth century deal with the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis and such questions ...
... Cuvier–Geoffroy debate, pre-Darwinian geology and natural theology, Darwin, and the transition from Darwin to the revival of Mendelism. Two chapters on the twentieth century deal with the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis and such questions ...
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... Cuvier seems to have been happy to assume that title, though it was animals, not plants, that he studied. But he would also have been willing to claim the crown for Master Aristotle. Some thought Cuvier's rival, Etienne Geoffroy Saint ...
... Cuvier seems to have been happy to assume that title, though it was animals, not plants, that he studied. But he would also have been willing to claim the crown for Master Aristotle. Some thought Cuvier's rival, Etienne Geoffroy Saint ...
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... Cuvier–Geoffroy debate. Nor, it should be added, despite the appearance of Harvey, whom we treat as a physiologist rather than a physician, have we dealt even episodically with the very complex, and different, subject of the history of ...
... Cuvier–Geoffroy debate. Nor, it should be added, despite the appearance of Harvey, whom we treat as a physiologist rather than a physician, have we dealt even episodically with the very complex, and different, subject of the history of ...
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... Cuvier, it was the details of comparative anatomy that mattered. Geoffroy, in contrast, was always in search of ... Cuvier's “conditions of existence” were ranked as more fundamental than Geoffroy's “unity of type.” We explore the Cuvier ...
... Cuvier, it was the details of comparative anatomy that mattered. Geoffroy, in contrast, was always in search of ... Cuvier's “conditions of existence” were ranked as more fundamental than Geoffroy's “unity of type.” We explore the Cuvier ...
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... , George-Louis Leclerq Comte de Buffon, Georges Cuvier, John Hunter, and Richard Owen, many of whom will be discussed in later chapters. 2 The intellectual soul of human beings is, Aristotle concedes, 2 The Philosophy of Biology.
... , George-Louis Leclerq Comte de Buffon, Georges Cuvier, John Hunter, and Richard Owen, many of whom will be discussed in later chapters. 2 The intellectual soul of human beings is, Aristotle concedes, 2 The Philosophy of Biology.
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Descartes Harvey and the Emergence of Modern Mechanism | 35 |
Buffon
| 64 |
Kant and the Development of German Biology
| 92 |
A Continental Controversy
| 128 |
British Controversies about Geology and Natural Theology
| 154 |
Darwin | 192 |
Evolution and Heredity from Darwin to the Rise of Genetics | 221 |
The Modern Evolutionary Synthesis and Its Discontents | 247 |
The Species Problem Reducibility Function and Teleology
| 290 |
Biology and Human Nature | 322 |
The Philosophy of Biology and the Philosophy of Science | 348 |
References | 363 |
Index | 393 |
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