The Philosophy of Biology - An Episodic History

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

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• Autori: David Depew, David J. Depew, Marjorie Grene
• Con la collaborazione di: Gary Hatfield (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 02.08.2004
• EAN: 9780521643801
• ISBN: 978-0-521-64380-1
• Dimensioni: 152 mm x 228 mm x 19 mm
• Serie: The Evolution of Modern Philosophy
• Categorie: Libri scolastici > Didattica > Formazione professionale; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Filosofia