The Philosophy of Biology: An Episodic History
(Sprache: Englisch)
Does life (for the living) differ from that of 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 examined through an exploration of episodes in the history of biology and philosophy.
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Does life (for the living) differ from that of 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 examined through an exploration of episodes in the history of biology and philosophy.
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1. Aristotle and after; 2. Descartes, Harvey and the emergence of modern mechanism; 3. The eighteenth century: Buffon; 4. The eighteenth century II: Kant the development of German biology; 5. Before Darwin I: A continental controversy; 6. Before Darwin II: British controversies about geology and natural theology; 7. Darwin; 8. Evolution and heredity from Darwin to the rise of genetics; 9. The modern evolutionary synthesis and its discontents; 10. Some themes in recent philosophy of biology: The species problem, reducibility, function and teleology; 11. Biology and human nature; 12. The philosophy of biology and the philosophy of science.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autoren: David Depew , Marjorie Grene
- 2004, 438 Seiten, Maße: 16,4 x 22,9 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Gary Hatfield
- Verlag: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PR
- ISBN-10: 0521643805
- ISBN-13: 9780521643801
Sprache:
Englisch
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