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  title info:
    title: Purpose & desire
    sub title: what makes something "alive" and why modern Darwinism has failed to explain it
  title info:
    title: Purpose and desire
  name:
    name part: Turner, J. Scott
    name part: 1951-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvi, 332 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: SUNY professor, biologist and physiologist J. Scott Turner argues that modern Darwinism's materialist and mechanistic biases have led to a scientific dead end, unable to define what life is, and only an openness to the qualities of "purpose and desire" will move the field forward. Turner surveys the history of evolutionary thought, identifying "purpose and desire" as the keys to a coherent science of life and its evolution. In Purpose and Desire, Turner draws on the work of Claude Bernard, a contemporary of Darwin revered as the founder of experimental physiology. Turner builds on Bernard's "dangerous idea" of homeostasis, a radical proposition for what makes "life" a unique phenomenon in nature. To fully understand life, including its evolution, Turner argues that we must move beyond strictly enforced boundaries of mechanism and materialism to explore living nature as distinctly purposeful and driven by desire.
  table of contents: The pony under the tree -- Biology's second law -- Many little lives -- A clockwork homeostasis -- A mad dream -- The barrier that wasn't -- The reverse Pinocchio -- A multiplicity of memory -- One is the friendliest number -- The hand of whatever -- Plato Street -- Epilogue : Evolution, purpose, and desire.
  note: J. Scott Turner.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Life (Biology)
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Life (Biology)
    topic: Philosophy
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Homeostasis
  subject:
    topic: Evolution (Biology)
  subject:
    topic: RELIGION / Religion & Science
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology
  subject:
    topic: RELIGION / Religion & Science
  classification: QH501 .T87 2017
  classification: 570.1
  identifier: 9780062651563
  identifier: 0062651560
  identifier: 2017019588
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 170731
    record change date: 20180430074924.0
    record identifier: in00003897684