Author: George John RomanesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evolution
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Darwin and After Darwin: Post-Darwinian questions: Heredity and utility. 1895
Author: George John RomanesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evolution
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Darwin and After Darwin: Post-Darwinian questions: Heredity and utility. 1895
Author: George John RomanesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evolution
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Darwin and After Darwin: Post-Darwinian questions: Heredity and utility. 1895
Author: George John RomanesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evolution
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Darwin and After Darwin: Post-Darwinian questions: Heredity and utility
Author: George John RomanesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evolution
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Darwin, and After Darwin
Author: George John RomanesPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108038107
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
Published 1893-7, this three-volume study of Darwin's work considers the many implications of evolution by natural selection.
The Newtonian Revolution
Author: I. Bernard CohenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521273800
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
This volume presents Professor Cohen's original interpretation of the revolution that marked the beginnings of modern science and set Newtonian science as the model for the highest level of achievement in other branches of science. It shows that Newton developed a special kind of relation between abstract mathematical constructs and the physical systems that we observe in the world around us by means of experiment and critical observation. The heart of the radical Newtonian style is the construction on the mind of a mathematical system that has some features in common with the physical world; this system was then modified when the deductions and conclusions drawn from it are tested against the physical universe. Using this system Newton was able to make his revolutionary innovations in celestial mechanics and, ultimately, create a new physics of central forces and the law of universal gravitation. Building on his analysis of Newton's methodology, Professor Cohen explores the fine structure of revolutionary change and scientific creativity in general. This is done by developing the concept of scientific change as a series of transformations of existing ideas. It is shown that such transformation is characteristic of many aspects of the sciences and that the concept of scientific change by transformation suggests a new way of examining the very nature of scientific creativity.
American Medico-surgical Bulletin
Author: William Henry PorterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1908
Book Description
Nature
Author: The Riddle of Organismal Agency
Author: Alejandro Fábregas-TejedaPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040111491
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
The Riddle of Organismal Agency brings together historians, philosophers, and scientists for an interdisciplinary re-assessment of one of the long-standing problems in the scientific understanding of life. Marshalling insights from diverse sciences including physiology, comparative psychology, developmental biology, and evolutionary biology, the book provides an up-to-date survey of approaches to non-human organisms as agents, capable of performing activities serving their own goals such as surviving or reproducing, and whose doings in the world are thus to be explained teleologically. From an Integrated History and Philosophy of Science perspective, the book contributes to a better conceptual and theoretical understanding of organismal agency, advancing some suggestions on how to study it empirically and how to frame it in relation to wider scientific and philosophical traditions. It also provides new historical entry points for examining the deployment, trajectories, and challenges of agential views of organisms in the history of biology and philosophy. This book will be of interest to philosophers of biology; historians of science; biologists interested in analysing the active roles of organisms in development, ecological interactions, and evolution; philosophers and practitioners of the cognitive sciences; and philosophers and historians of philosophy working on purposiveness and teleology.
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