Philosophy of Biology Before Biology (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Bognon-Küss, Cécilia; Wolfe, Charles T.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Philosophy of Biology Before Biology examines biological and proto-biological writings from the mid-eighteenth century to the early nineteenth century (from Buffon to Cuvier; Kant to Oken; and Kielmeyer).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317227564
• Artikelnr.: 55276461

Autorenporträt

Cécilia Bognon-Küss is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Paris 7 ('Who am I?' Labex). Charles T. Wolfe is a researcher in the Department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences, Ghent University, Belgium.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Cécilia Bognon-Küss & Charles T. Wolfe. The idea of "philosophy of
biology before biology": a methodological provocation
Part I. FORM AND DEVELOPMENT
2. Stéphane Schmitt. Buffon's theories of generation and the changing
dialectics of molds and molecules
3. Phillip Sloan. Metaphysics and "Vital" Materialism: The Gabrielle Du
Châtelet Circle and French Vitalism
4. John Zammito. The Philosophical Reception of C. F. Wolff's Epigenesis
in Germany, 1770-1790: Herder, Tetens and Kant
Part II. ORGANISM & ORGANIZATION
5. François Duchesneau. Senebier and the Advent of General Physiology
6. Tobias Cheung. Organization and Process. Living Systems Between Inner
and Outer Worlds: Cuvier, Hufeland, Cabanis.
Part III. SYSTEMS
7. Georg Toepfer. Philosophy of Ecology Long Before Ecology: Kant's Idea
of an Organized System of Organized Beings
8. Ina Goy. "All is leaf". Goethe's plant philosophy and poetry
9. Snait Gissis. 'Biologie': Lamarck's endeavor of a science of living
entities
POSTSCRIPTS
1. Lynn Nyhart. A Historical Proposal Around Prepositions
2. Philippe Huneman. Philosophy after Philosophy of Biology before
Biology
Cécilia Bognon-Küss and Charles T. Wolfe. Conclusion