Biology History And Natural Philosophy

Author : Allan D. Breck
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781468416954

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Biology, History, and Natural Philosophy by Allan D. Breck Pdf

In a world that peers over the brink of disaster more often than not it is difficult to find specific assignments for the scholarly community. One speaks of peace and brotherhood only to realize that for many the only real hope of making a contribution may seem to be in a field of scientific specialization seemingly irrelevant to social causes and problems. Yet the history of man since the beginnings of science in the days of the Greeks does not support this gloomy thesis. Time and again we have seen science precipitate social trends or changes in the humanistic beliefs that have a significant effect on the scientific community. Not infrequently the theoretical scientist, triggered by society's changing goals and understandings, finds ultimate satisfaction in the work of his colleagues in engineering and the other applied fields. Thus the major debate in mid-nineteenth century in which the evidence of natural history and geology at variance with the Biblical feats provided not only courage to a timid Darwin but the kind of audience that was needed to fit his theories into the broad public dialogue on these topics. The impact of "Darwinism" was felt far beyond the scientific community. It affected social thought, upset religious certainties and greatly affected the teaching of science.

Author : David Cahan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226089287

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From Natural Philosophy to the Sciences by David Cahan Pdf

During the nineteenth century, much of the modern scientific enterprise took shape: scientific disciplines were formed, institutions and communities were founded, and unprecedented applications to and interactions with other aspects of society and culture occurred. In this book, eleven leading historians of science assess what their field has taught us about this exciting time and identify issues that remain unexamined or require reconsideration. They treat both scientific disciplines—biology, physics, chemistry, the earth sciences, mathematics, and the social sciences—in their specific intellectual and sociocultural contexts as well as the broader topics of science and medicine; science and religion; scientific institutions and communities; and science, technology, and industry. Providing a much-needed overview and analysis of a rapidly expanding field, From Natural Philosophy to the Sciences will be essential for historians of science, but also of great interest to scholars of all aspects of nineteenth-century life and culture. Contributors: Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Jed Z. Buchwald, David Cahan, Joseph Dauben, Frederick Gregory, Michael Hagner, Sungook Hong, David R. Oldroyd, Theodore M. Porter, Robert J. Richards, Ulrich Wengenroth

Author : A. D Breck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1995-12-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1468419668

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Biology, History, and Natural Philosophy by A. D Breck Pdf

Author : Allen D. Breck,Wolfgang Yourgrau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1014752786

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Biology, History and Natural Philosophy by Allen D. Breck,Wolfgang Yourgrau Pdf

Author : Edward Grant,Professor Emeritus Edward Grant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521869317

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A History of Natural Philosophy by Edward Grant,Professor Emeritus Edward Grant Pdf

This book describes how natural philosophy and exact mathematical sciences joined together to make the Scientific Revolution possible.

Author : Cécilia Bognon-Küss,Charles T. Wolfe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317227557

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Philosophy of Biology Before Biology by Cécilia Bognon-Küss,Charles T. Wolfe Pdf

The use of the term "biology" to refer to a unified science of life emerged around 1800 (most prominently by scientists such as Lamarck and Treviranus, although scholarship has indicated its usage at least 30-40 years earlier). The interplay between philosophy and natural science has also accompanied the constitution of biology as a science. Philosophy of Biology Before Biology examines biological and protobiological writings from the mid-eighteenth century to the early nineteenth century (from Buffon to Cuvier; Kant to Oken; and Kielmeyer) with two major sets of questions in mind: What were the distinctive conceptual features of the move toward biology as a science? What were the relations and differences between the "philosophical" focus on the nature of living entities, and the "scientific" focus? This insightful volume produces a fresh but also systematic perspective both on the history of biology as a science and on the early versions of, in the 1960s in a post-positivist context, the philosophy of biology. It will appeal to students and researchers interested in fields such as history of science, philosophy of science and biology.

Author : Robert H Kretsinger
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789814635066

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History And Philosophy Of Biology by Robert H Kretsinger Pdf

History and Philosophy of Biology summarizes the major philosophical ideas that have attended the development of science in general and of biology in particular. The book then explores how the techniques and the concepts of the physical sciences have impacted biology. A reductionist approach to biology — anatomy, physiology, genetics — complements the study of evolution by natural selection and an ecological perspective. The final section of the book explores several examples of the influence of science on society, and of society on science.Each of 46 chapters of History and Philosophy of Biology has been or could be the topic of a major tome. The book is unique in that it explores the web of interactions among issues of philosophy, techniques and concepts of the physical sciences, fields of biology, and the diverse relationships between society and science.The book should appeal to readers of Scientific American or the New York Review of Books even if they are not trained biologists. It is a good text, or additional reading, for an advanced undergraduate course treating history and/or philosophy of biology or of science in general.

Author : Marjorie Grene,David J. Depew
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521643805

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The Philosophy of Biology by Marjorie Grene,David J. Depew Pdf

Examines how the philosophy of biology has evolved to our current understanding.

Author : Jacques Monod
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biology
ISBN : 0140256466

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Chance and Necessity by Jacques Monod Pdf

Change and necessity is a statement of Darwinian natural selection as a process driven by chance necessity, devoid of purpose or intent.

Author : Peter Distelzweig,Benjamin Goldberg,Evan R. Ragland
Publisher : Springer
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401773539

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Early Modern Medicine and Natural Philosophy by Peter Distelzweig,Benjamin Goldberg,Evan R. Ragland Pdf

This volume presents an innovative look at early modern medicine and natural philosophy as historically interrelated developments. The individual chapters chart this interrelation in a variety of contexts, from the Humanists who drew on Hippocrates, Galen, and Aristotle to answer philosophical and medical questions, to medical debates on the limits and power of mechanism, and on to eighteenth-century controversies over medical materialism and 'atheism.' The work presented here broadens our understanding of both philosophy and medicine in this period by illustrating the ways these disciplines were in deep theoretical and methodological dialogue and by demonstrating the importance of this dialogue for understanding their history. Taken together, these papers argue that to overlook the medical context of natural philosophy and the philosophical context of medicine is to overlook fundamentally important aspects of these intellectual endeavors.

Author : Charles T. Wolfe,Paolo Pecere,Antonio Clericuzio
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783031070365

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Mechanism, Life and Mind in Modern Natural Philosophy by Charles T. Wolfe,Paolo Pecere,Antonio Clericuzio Pdf

This volume emphasizes the diversity and fruitfulness of early modern mechanism as a program, as a concept, as a model. Mechanistic study of the living body but also of the mind and mental processes are examined in careful historical focus, dealing with figures ranging from the first-rank (Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza, Cudworth, Gassendi, Locke, Leibniz, Kant) to less well-known individuals (Scaliger, Martini) or prominent natural philosophers who have been neglected in recent years (Willis, Steno, etc.). The volume moves from early modern medicine and physiology to late Enlightenment and even early 19th-century psychology, always maintaining a conceptual focus. It is a contribution to a newly active field in the history and philosophy of early modern life science. It is of interest to scholars studying the history of medicine and the development of mechanistic theories.

Author : Marjorie Grene
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401022248

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The Understanding of Nature by Marjorie Grene Pdf

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').

Author : Jason A. Tipton
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319014210

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Philosophical Biology in Aristotle's Parts of Animals by Jason A. Tipton Pdf

This book provides a detailed analysis of Aristotle’s Parts of Animals. It presents the wealth of information provided in the biological works of Aristotle and revisits the detailed natural history observations that inform, and in many ways penetrate, the philosophical argument. It raises the question of how easy it is to clearly distinguish between what some might describe as “merely” biological and the philosophical. It explores the notion and consequences of describing the activity in which Aristotle is engaged as philosophical biology. The book examines such questions as: do readers of Aristotle have in mind organisms like Ascidians or Holothurians when trying to understand Aristotle’s argument regarding plant-like animals? Do they need the phenomena in front of them to understand the terms of the philosophical argument in a richer way? The discussion of plant-like animals is important in Aristotle because of the question about the continuum between plant and animal life. Where does Aristotle draw the line? Plant-like animals bring this question into focus and demonstrate the indeterminacy of any potential solution to the division. This analysis of Parts of Animals shows that the study of the nature of the organic world was Aristotle’s way into such ontological problems as the relationship between matter and form, or form and function, or the heterogeneity of the many different kinds of being.​

Author : Peter Godfrey-Smith
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691174679

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Philosophy of Biology by Peter Godfrey-Smith Pdf

An essential introduction to the philosophy of biology This is a concise, comprehensive, and accessible introduction to the philosophy of biology written by a leading authority on the subject. Geared to philosophers, biologists, and students of both, the book provides sophisticated and innovative coverage of the central topics and many of the latest developments in the field. Emphasizing connections between biological theories and other areas of philosophy, and carefully explaining both philosophical and biological terms, Peter Godfrey-Smith discusses the relation between philosophy and science; examines the role of laws, mechanistic explanation, and idealized models in biological theories; describes evolution by natural selection; and assesses attempts to extend Darwin's mechanism to explain changes in ideas, culture, and other phenomena. Further topics include functions and teleology, individuality and organisms, species, the tree of life, and human nature. The book closes with detailed, cutting-edge treatments of the evolution of cooperation, of information in biology, and of the role of communication in living systems at all scales. Authoritative and up-to-date, this is an essential guide for anyone interested in the important philosophical issues raised by the biological sciences.

Author : W.R. Shea
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400969575

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Nature Mathematized by W.R. Shea Pdf

These remarks preface two volumes consisting of the proceedings of the Third International Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science. The conference was held under the auspices of the Union, The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science. The meetings took place in Montreal, Canada, 25--29 August 1980, with Concordia University as host institution. The program of the conference was arranged by a Joint Commission of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science consisting of Robert E. Butts (Canada), John Murdoch (U. S. A. ), Vladimir Kirsanov (U. S. S. R. ), and Paul Weingartner (Austria). The Local Arrangements Committee consisted of Stanley G. French, Chair (Concordia), Michel Paradis, treasurer (McGill), Franyois Duchesneau (Universite de Montreal), Robert Nadeau (Universite du Quebec a Montreal), and William Shea (McGill University). Both committees are indebted to Dr. G. R. Paterson, then President of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science, who shared his expertise in many ways. Dr. French and his staff worked diligently and efficiently on behalf of all participants. The city of Montreal was, as always, the subtle mixture of extravagance, charm, warmth and excitement that retains her status as the jewel of Canadian cities. The funding of major international conferences is always a problem.