The Philosophy of Biology: An Episodic History

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Cambridge 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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Aristotle and After
1
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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