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On The Riddle Of Life - A Historico-Logical Study Of Vitalism

by Bohang Chen

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 This book presents a historico-logical study of vitalism. It begins by uncovering previously unknown doctrines of vitalism from the history of science—encompassing biological, physical, and social sciences—and then subjects these doctrines to a thorough logical analysis. Through this process, the book offers a unified conceptual framework to understand the major doctrines of vitalism in the history of science, ultimately relating vitalism to the question of life. Following the classical methodological approach endorsed by Immanuel Kant, nineteenth-century philosopher-scientists like Ernst Mach, and early-twentieth-century logical analysts, including logical empiricists, British analysts, pragmatists, Husserlian phenomenologists, and neo-Kantians, this work provides unconventional and valuable perspectives on vitalism and the riddle of life, appealing to a broad audience, including scientists, historians, and philosophers of science, particularly those from biological backgrounds.
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Lamarckism And The Emergence Of 'Scientific' Social Sciences In Nineteenth-Century Britain And France

by Snait B. Gissis

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 The book presents an original synthesizing framework on the relations between ‘the biological’ and ‘the social’. Within these relations, the late nineteenth-century emergence of social sciences aspiring to be constituted as autonomous, as ''scientific'' disciplines, is described, analyzed and explained. Through this framework, the author points to conceptual and constructive commonalities conjoining significant founding figures - Lamarck, Spencer, Hughlings Jackson, Ribot, Durkheim, Freud - who were not grouped nor analyzed in this manner before. Thus, the book offers a rather unique synthesis of the interactions of the social, the mental, and the evolutionary biological - Spencerian Lamarckism and/or Neo-Lamarckism - crystallizing into novel fields. It adds substantially to the understanding of the complexities of evolutionary debates during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. It will attract the attention of a wide spectrum of specialists, academics, and postgraduates in European history of the nineteenth century, history and philosophy of science, and history of biology and of the social sciences, including psychology.
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Understanding Evolution In Darwin'S &Quote;Origin&Quote; - The Emerging Context Of Evolutionary Thinking

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 This book aims to encourage the reading of "On the Origin of Species" and to include it in the teaching of evolution. This book is of interest to undergraduate and graduate students, scholars in history, philosophy, and sociology of science and science education, as well as the general public.
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Functions: From Organisms To Artefacts

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 This book, originally published in French, examines the philosophical debates on functions over the last forty years and proposes new ways of analysis. Pervasive throughout the life sciences, the concept of function has the air of an epistemological scandal: ascribing a function to a biological structure or process amounts to suggesting that it is explained by its effects. This book confronts the debates on function with the use of the notion in a wide range of disciplines, such as biology, psychology, and medicine. It also raises the question of whether this notion, which is as old in the history of technology as it is in the life sciences, has the same meaning in these two domains.
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Philosophy, History And Biology: Essays In Honour Of Jean Gayon

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 This book builds on recent scholarship highlighted in the edited collections, Philosophie, histoire, biologie: mélanges offerts à Jean Gayon (Merlin & Huneman, 2018) and Knowledge of Life Today (Gayon & Petit 2018/2019). While honoring the career and the thought of Jean Gayon (1949-2018), this book showcases the continued relevance of Gayon’s interdisciplinary work and illustrates his central place in the community of historians and philosophers of the life sciences.Chapters in this book address Jean Gayon’s intellectual trajectory from historical epistemology to the philosophy of biology, the nature and scope of his philosophical approach to the history of science, and his unique contributions to the history and epistemology of biological concepts and theories. Drawing on published and unpublished sources, the book explores some of Gayon’s most significant contributions to the philosophy, history, and social studies of biology.
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Canguilhem And Continental Philosophy Of Biology

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 This edited volume presents papers on this alternative philosophy of biology that could be called â€œcontinental philosophy of biology,â€ and the variety of positions and solutions that it has spawned.
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Vitalism And Its Legacy In Twentieth Century Life Sciences And Philosophy

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 While vitalism, organicism and similar epistemologies are often the concern of specialists in the history and philosophy of biology and of historians of ideas, the range of the contributions as well as the geographical and temporal scope of the volume allows for it to appeal to the historian of science and the historian of biology generally.
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Canguilhem And Continental Philosophy Of Biology

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 This edited volume presents papers on this alternative philosophy of biology that could be called â€œcontinental philosophy of biology,â€ and the variety of positions and solutions that it has spawned.
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From Evolutionary Biology To Economics And Back - Parallels And Crossings Between Economics And Evolution

by Bernard Walliser, Jean Gayon, Jean-Baptiste Andre, Johannes Martens, Mikael Cozic, Philippe Huneman e Silvia De Monte

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 This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the major key concepts common to economics and evolutionary biology.
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Causal Pluralism In The Life Sciences - A Journey Along The Frontiers Of Conceptual Plurality

by Kolja Ehrenstein

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 This book takes a new approach to the debate on causal pluralism in the philosophy of biology by asking how useful pluralism is instead of debating its truth.
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Psychopathy - Its Uses, Validity And Status

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 This book explains the ethical and conceptual tensions in the use of psychopathy in different countries, including America, Canada, the UK, Croatia, Australia, and New Zealand.
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From Assessing To Conserving Biodiversity - Conceptual And Practical Challenges

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 This open access book features essays written by philosophers, biologists, ecologists and conservation scientists facing the current biodiversity crisis.
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Life And Evolution - Latin American Essays On The History And Philosophy Of Biology

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 This book offers to the international reader a collection of original articles of some of the most skillful historians and philosophers of biology currently working in Latin American universities. During the last decades, increasing attention has been paid in Latin America to the history and philosophy of biology, but since many local authors prefer to write in Spanish or in Portuguese, their ideas have barely crossed the boundaries of the continent. This volume aims to remedy this state of things, providing a good sample of this production to the English speaking readers, bringing together contributions from researchers working in Brazilian, Argentinean, Chilean, Colombian and Mexican universities.The stress on the regional provenance of the authors is not intended to suggest the existence of something like a Latin American history and philosophy of biology, supposedly endowed with distinctive features. On the contrary, the editors firmly believethat advances in this field can be achieved only by stimulating the integration in the international debate. Based on this assumption, the book focuses on two topics, life and evolution, and presents a selection of contributions addressing issues such as the history of the concept of life, the philosophical reflection on life manipulation and life extension, the structure and development of evolutionary theory as well as human evolution.Life and Evolution - Latin American Essays on the History and Philosophy of Biology will provide the international reader with a rather complete picture of the ongoing research in the history and philosophy of biology in Latin America, offering a snapshot of this dynamic community. It will also contribute to contextualize and develop the debate concerning life and evolution, and the relation between the two phenomena.
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Biological Robustness - Emerging Perspectives From Within The Life Sciences

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 This volume reviews examples and notions of robustness at several levels of biological organization. Contributions span from protein folding, to cell-level robustness, to organismal and developmental robustness, to sensorimotor systems, up to the robustness of ecological systems.Several chapters detail neurobiological case-studies.
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Academic Theories Of Generation In The Renaissance - The Contemporaries And Successors Of Jean Fernel (1497-1558)

by Linda Deer Richardson

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 This volume deals with philosophically grounded theories of animal generation as found in two different traditions: one, deriving primarily from Aristotelian natural philosophy and specifically from his Generation of Animals; and another, deriving from two related medical traditions, the Hippocratic and the Galenic. The book contains a classification and critique of works that touch on the history of embryology and animal generation written before 1980. It also contains translations of key sections of the works on which it is focused. It looks at two different scholarly communities: the physicians (medici) and philosophers (philosophi), that share a set of textual resources and philosophical lineages, as well as a shared problem (explaining animal generation), but that nevertheless have different concerns and commitments. The book demonstrates how those working in these two traditions not only shared a common philosophical background in the arts curricula of the universities,but were in constant intercourse with each other. This book presents a test case of how scholarly communities differentiate themselves from each other through methods of argument, empirical investigation, and textual interpretations. It is all the more interesting because the two communities under investigation have so much in common and yet, in the end, are distinct in a number of important ways.
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Vital Forces, Teleology And Organization - Philosophy Of Nature And The Rise Of Biology In Germany

by Andrea Gambarotto

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 This book offers a comprehensive account of vitalism and the Romantic philosophy of nature. The author explores the rise of biology as a unified science in Germany by reconstructing the history of the notion of "vital force," starting from the mid-eighteenth through the early nineteenth century. Further, he argues that Romantic Naturphilosophie played a crucial role in the rise of biology in Germany, especially thanks to its treatment of teleology. In fact, both post-Kantian philosophers and naturalists were guided by teleological principles in defining the object of biological research.The book begins by considering the problem of generation, focusing on the debate over the notion of "formative force." Readers are invited to engage with the epistemological status of this formative force, i.e. the question of the principle behind organization. The second chapter provides a reconstruction of the physiology of vital forces as it was elaborated in the mid- to late-eighteenth century by the group of physicians and naturalists known as the "Göttingen School." Readers are shown how these authors developed an understanding of the animal kingdom as a graded series of organisms with increasing functional complexity.Chapter three tracks the development of such framework in Romantic Naturphilosophie. The author introduces the reader to the problem of classification, showing how Romantic philosophers of nature regarded classification as articulated by a unified plan that connects all living forms with one another, relying on the idea of living nature as a universal organism. In the closing chapter, this analysis shows how the three instances of pre-biological discourse on living beings - theory of generation, physiology and natural history - converged to form the consolidated disciplinary matrix of a general biology. The book offers an insightful read for all scholars interested in classical German philosophy, especially those researching the philosophy of nature, as well as the history and philosophy of biology.
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On The Origin Of Autonomy - A New Look At The Major Transitions In Evolution

by Bernd Rosslenbroich

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 The Origin of Autonomy and the Major Transitions in Evolution
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Philosophy Of Systems Biology - Perspectives From Scientists And Philosophers

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 The emergence of systems biology raises many fascinating questions: What does it mean to take a systems approach to problems in biology?
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Zionism And The Biology Of Jews

by Raphael Falk

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 Both issues unfolded against the background of a romantic national culture of Western Europe in the 19th century: Jews, primarily from Eastern Europe, began to believe these notions and soon they took the lead in the re-formulation of Jewish and Zionist existence.
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Vitalism And The Scientific Image In Post-Enlightenment Life Science, 1800-2010

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 Vitalism is understood as impacting the history of the life sciences, medicine and philosophy. This volume details the history of vitalism from the end of the Enlightenment to the modern day, employing both historical and philosophical methodologies.
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The Philosophy Of Biology - A Companion For Educators

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 In this book, philosophers of biology explore central concepts and key issues in biology education. It covers a variety of topics ranging from traditional ones to contemporary ones, such as genomics, systems biology or evolutionary developmental biology.
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Explaining Photosynthesis - Models Of Biochemical Mechanisms, 1840-1960

by Kärin Nickelsen

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 Explaining Photosynthesis
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Explanation In Biology - An Enquiry Into The Diversity Of Explanatory Patterns In The Life Sciences

by Christophe Malaterre e Pierre-Alain Braillard

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 Explanation in Biology
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Blumenbachâ€™S Racial Classification - Deconstructing The Timeless Call For Human Differentiation

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