Author: John Dupré
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199691983
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
John Dupré explores recent revolutionary developments in biology and considers their relevance for our understanding of human nature and society. He reveals how the advance of genetic science is changing our view of the constituents of life, and shows how an understanding of microbiology will overturn standard assumptions about the living world.
Processes of Life
Author: John Dupré
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199691983
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
John Dupré explores recent revolutionary developments in biology and considers their relevance for our understanding of human nature and society. He reveals how the advance of genetic science is changing our view of the constituents of life, and shows how an understanding of microbiology will overturn standard assumptions about the living world.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199691983
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
John Dupré explores recent revolutionary developments in biology and considers their relevance for our understanding of human nature and society. He reveals how the advance of genetic science is changing our view of the constituents of life, and shows how an understanding of microbiology will overturn standard assumptions about the living world.
Essays in Philosophical Biology
Author: William Morton Wheeler
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780846209621
Category : Biology
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780846209621
Category : Biology
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Essays in philosophical biology
Author: William Morton Wheeler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biology
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biology
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
The Understanding of Nature
Author: Marjorie Grene
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401022240
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
No student or colleague of Marjorie Grene will miss her incisive presence in these papers on the study and nature of living nature, and we believe the new reader will quickly join the stimulating discussion and critique which Professor Grene steadily provokes. For years she has worked with equally sure knowledge in the classical domain of philosophy and in modern epistemological inquiry, equally philosopher of science and metaphysician. Moreover, she has the deeply sensible notion that she should be a critically intelligent learner as much as an imaginatively original thinker, and as a result she has brought insightful expository readings of other philosophers and scientists to her own work. We were most fortunate that Marjorie Grene was willing to spend a full semester of a recent leave here in Boston, and we have on other occasions sought her participation in our colloquia and elsewhere. Now we have the pleasure of including among the Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science this generous selection from Grene's philosophical inquiries into the understanding of the natural world, and of the men and women in it. Boston University Center for the R. S. COHEN Philosophy and History of Science M. W. W ARTOFSKY April 1974 PREFACE This collection spans - spottily - years from 1946 ('On Some Distinctions between Men and Brutes') to 1974 ('On the Nature of Natural Necessity').
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401022240
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
No student or colleague of Marjorie Grene will miss her incisive presence in these papers on the study and nature of living nature, and we believe the new reader will quickly join the stimulating discussion and critique which Professor Grene steadily provokes. For years she has worked with equally sure knowledge in the classical domain of philosophy and in modern epistemological inquiry, equally philosopher of science and metaphysician. Moreover, she has the deeply sensible notion that she should be a critically intelligent learner as much as an imaginatively original thinker, and as a result she has brought insightful expository readings of other philosophers and scientists to her own work. We were most fortunate that Marjorie Grene was willing to spend a full semester of a recent leave here in Boston, and we have on other occasions sought her participation in our colloquia and elsewhere. Now we have the pleasure of including among the Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science this generous selection from Grene's philosophical inquiries into the understanding of the natural world, and of the men and women in it. Boston University Center for the R. S. COHEN Philosophy and History of Science M. W. W ARTOFSKY April 1974 PREFACE This collection spans - spottily - years from 1946 ('On Some Distinctions between Men and Brutes') to 1974 ('On the Nature of Natural Necessity').
Chance and Necessity
Author: Jacques Monod
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140256468
Category : Biology
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Change and necessity is a statement of Darwinian natural selection as a process driven by chance necessity, devoid of purpose or intent.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140256468
Category : Biology
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Change and necessity is a statement of Darwinian natural selection as a process driven by chance necessity, devoid of purpose or intent.
Essays in Philosophical Biology
Author: William Morton Wheeler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Philosophical Essays
Author: Hans Jonas
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780982706794
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
A pivotal volume in the collected works of Hans Jonas (1903-1993), one of most important German-American philosophers of the last half of the 20th century, this edition is the only one to include contributions from his three primary areas of achievement: philosophical reflection on gnosticism, on biology, and on technology.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780982706794
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
A pivotal volume in the collected works of Hans Jonas (1903-1993), one of most important German-American philosophers of the last half of the 20th century, this edition is the only one to include contributions from his three primary areas of achievement: philosophical reflection on gnosticism, on biology, and on technology.
Functions
Author: André Ariew
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199255801
Category : Biology
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
This title includes the following features: a hot topic; eminent contributors; brings together philosophy, biology, and psychology; all essays specially written for this volume
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199255801
Category : Biology
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
This title includes the following features: a hot topic; eminent contributors; brings together philosophy, biology, and psychology; all essays specially written for this volume
Science and Selection
Author: David L. Hull
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521644051
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
One way to understand science is as a selection process. David Hull, one of the dominant figures in contemporary philosophy of science, sets out in this 2001 volume a general analysis of this selection process that applies equally to biological evolution, the reaction of the immune system to antigens, operant learning, and social and conceptual change in science. Hull aims to distinguish between those characteristics that are contingent features of selection and those that are essential. Science and Selection brings together many of David Hull's most important essays on selection (some never before published) in one accessible volume.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521644051
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
One way to understand science is as a selection process. David Hull, one of the dominant figures in contemporary philosophy of science, sets out in this 2001 volume a general analysis of this selection process that applies equally to biological evolution, the reaction of the immune system to antigens, operant learning, and social and conceptual change in science. Hull aims to distinguish between those characteristics that are contingent features of selection and those that are essential. Science and Selection brings together many of David Hull's most important essays on selection (some never before published) in one accessible volume.
The Phenomenon of Life
Author: Hans Jonas
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810117495
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
One of the most prominent thinkers of his generation, Hans Jonas wrote on topics as diverse as the philosophy of biology, ethics and cosmology. This work sets forth a systematic philosophy of biological facts, laid out in support of his claim that mind is prefigured throughout organic existence.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810117495
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
One of the most prominent thinkers of his generation, Hans Jonas wrote on topics as diverse as the philosophy of biology, ethics and cosmology. This work sets forth a systematic philosophy of biological facts, laid out in support of his claim that mind is prefigured throughout organic existence.