The philosophy of biology : an episodic history / Marjorie Grene, David Depew.
Pubblicazione:
Cambridge : Cambridge university press, 2004.
Descrizione fisica:
XXI, 416 p. ; 23 cm
Serie:
The evolution of modern philosophy
Contiene:
Indice: List of figures. Notes on citations and references. Acknowledgments. Preface. 1. Aristotle and after 2. Descartes, Harvey and the emergence of modern mechanism 3. The eighteenth century: I. Buffon 4. The eighteenth century: II. Kant and 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. References. Index
