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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... century, the authors consider Buffon and Kant. From 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 ...
... century, the authors consider Buffon and Kant. From 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 ...
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... Century I: Buffon 4 The Eighteenth Century II: Kant and the Development of German Biology 5 Before Darwin I: A Continental Controversy 6 Before Darwin II: British Controversies about Geology 10 11 and Natural Theology Darwin Evolution ...
... Century I: Buffon 4 The Eighteenth Century II: Kant and the Development of German Biology 5 Before Darwin I: A Continental Controversy 6 Before Darwin II: British Controversies about Geology 10 11 and Natural Theology Darwin Evolution ...
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... century focuses, as we admit, on Darwin and some of the events that precede and follow the development of his theory. Linnaeus appears, parenthetically, in our chapter on Buffon, and Lamarck receives equally short shrift in the context ...
... century focuses, as we admit, on Darwin and some of the events that precede and follow the development of his theory. Linnaeus appears, parenthetically, in our chapter on Buffon, and Lamarck receives equally short shrift in the context ...
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... century, we focus, first, on the work of the Comte de Buffon, the great natural historian whose work spans most of the century. Here we have clearly left the Scholastic tradition for a period in which it is the Newtonian heritage that ...
... century, we focus, first, on the work of the Comte de Buffon, the great natural historian whose work spans most of the century. Here we have clearly left the Scholastic tradition for a period in which it is the Newtonian heritage that ...
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... century we have, further, Kant's “Critique of Teleological Judgment,” an account, as we have seen, of organisms as “natural purposes,” in which all parts are harmoniously both ends and means (Kant 1793). In this work, Kant was both ...
... century we have, further, Kant's “Critique of Teleological Judgment,” an account, as we have seen, of organisms as “natural purposes,” in which all parts are harmoniously both ends and means (Kant 1793). In this work, Kant was both ...
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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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