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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... physics and chemistry, and the problem of biological explanation in terms of function and teleology. The final chapters reflect on the question of human nature and the implications of the philosophy of biology for the philosophy of ...
... physics and chemistry, and the problem of biological explanation in terms of function and teleology. The final chapters reflect on the question of human nature and the implications of the philosophy of biology for the philosophy of ...
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... Physics Forthcoming Paul Guyer: Aesthetics Gary Hatfield: The Philosophy of Psychology Stephen Darwall: Ethics T. R. Harrison: Political Philosophy William Ewald & Michael J. Hallett: The Philosophy of Mathematics Michael Losonsky: The ...
... Physics Forthcoming Paul Guyer: Aesthetics Gary Hatfield: The Philosophy of Psychology Stephen Darwall: Ethics T. R. Harrison: Political Philosophy William Ewald & Michael J. Hallett: The Philosophy of Mathematics Michael Losonsky: The ...
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... physics. 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? Or does it after all? That is the basic cluster of questions we have focused on ...
... physics. 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? Or does it after all? That is the basic cluster of questions we have focused on ...
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... physics and the purposiveness of life forms is at its most acute – so acute, he held, that we will never resolve it. The early nineteenth century is marked by the preeminence of the Museum of Natural History in Paris. It was a time of ...
... physics and the purposiveness of life forms is at its most acute – so acute, he held, that we will never resolve it. The early nineteenth century is marked by the preeminence of the Museum of Natural History in Paris. It was a time of ...
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... physics and chemistry. Early in the century, there were still vitalists opposing programmatic mechanists. Although confrontation in those terms seems to be over, biologists and biologically concerned philosophers still take diverse ...
... physics and chemistry. Early in the century, there were still vitalists opposing programmatic mechanists. Although confrontation in those terms seems to be over, biologists and biologically concerned philosophers still take diverse ...
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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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