Philosophy of biology before biology /
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| Language: | English |
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Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2019.
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| Series: | History and philosophy of biology (Routledge (Firm))
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Notes; References; 1 The idea of 'philosophy of biology before biology': a methodological provocation; Philosophy of biology before biology: an absurd idea?; Biology and philosophy of biology; Biological philosophy and philosophy of biology; 'Historical epistemology of the life sciences' and philosophy of biology; Philosophy of biology before biology: biology and the conceptual conditions of its emergence; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes
- 3 Metaphysics and "vital" materialism: Émilie Du Châtelet and the origins of French vitalismIntroduction; Leibnizian organic machines; Leibnizianism among the French: Du Châtelet's synthesis; Buffon's organic molecules; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; 4 The philosophical uptake of Caspar Friedrich Wolff in German philosophy after 1770: Tetens, Herder, Kant and Blumenbach; Introduction; Caspar Friedrich Wolff and epigenesis; Johann Nicolaus Tetens; Johann Gottfried Herder; Immanuel Kant; Blumenbach between Kant and Wolff; Conclusion; Notes; References
- Part II: Organism and organization5 Senebier and the advent of general physiology; Introduction; Physiology and the functioning of plants; Extension of patterns to animal physiology; Conclusion; Notes; References; 6 Organization and process. Living systems between inner and outer worlds: Cuvier, Hufeland, Cabanis; Introduction; Cuvier's science of organized beings; Hufeland's reproductive organisms; Cabanis's organic networks of reaction centers; Concluding remarks; Notes; References; Part III: Systems
- 7 Philosophy of ecology long before ecology: Kant's idea of an organized system of organized beingsTwo traditions of defining ecology; Ecological ideas in the physico-theological tradition; Kant's systems thinking; Kant's ecology: "organizing systems of organized bodies"; Kant's contribution to ecology; References; 8 "All is leaf ": Goethe's plant philosophy and poetry; 1 The primal plant and its organ, the leaf; 2 The metamorphosis of the leaf; Conclusion; Abbreviations; Notes; References; 9 'Biologie': Lamarck's endeavor of a science of living entities; Introduction