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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... example – Adams 1980. r For certain authors of a substantial, well-edited body of work, we have used a standard reference system or abbreviations, as noted here, to cite the editions in which these authors' writings can be found ...
... example – Adams 1980. r For certain authors of a substantial, well-edited body of work, we have used a standard reference system or abbreviations, as noted here, to cite the editions in which these authors' writings can be found ...
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... example, we touch only incidentally on the preformation/epigenesis debate; we come close to ignoring the coming of the cell theory; we overlook Pasteur and the question of spontaneous generation, as well as Claude Bernard and the ...
... example, we touch only incidentally on the preformation/epigenesis debate; we come close to ignoring the coming of the cell theory; we overlook Pasteur and the question of spontaneous generation, as well as Claude Bernard and the ...
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... example, we learn that on the mainland of Asia Minor, “the people are milder and less passionate” than in Europe because Asia “lies equally distant from the rising of the sun in the summer and winter,” and “luxuriance and ease of ...
... example, we learn that on the mainland of Asia Minor, “the people are milder and less passionate” than in Europe because Asia “lies equally distant from the rising of the sun in the summer and winter,” and “luxuriance and ease of ...
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... example, “a bedstead or a coat or anything else of that sort...has within itself no internal impulse to change” (Physics 192 b 16–18, revised Oxford translation, amended). We can see from this example what Aristotle means by a ...
... example, “a bedstead or a coat or anything else of that sort...has within itself no internal impulse to change” (Physics 192 b 16–18, revised Oxford translation, amended). We can see from this example what Aristotle means by a ...
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... example, have souls that initiate and guide reproductive, metabolic, and growth functions. Animals have, in addition, sensory and locomotive capacities, as well as affections. For, unlike plants, they must move over space to find food ...
... example, have souls that initiate and guide reproductive, metabolic, and growth functions. Animals have, in addition, sensory and locomotive capacities, as well as affections. For, unlike plants, they must move over space to find food ...
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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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