Final Causes
Author : Paul Janet
Publisher :
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 36,64 MB
Release : 1883
Category : Metaphysics
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Author : Paul Janet
Publisher :
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 36,64 MB
Release : 1883
Category : Metaphysics
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Author : Paul Janet
Publisher :
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 21,88 MB
Release : 1878
Category : Teleology
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Author : Lucas John Mix
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 13,60 MB
Release : 2022-10-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3031140176
This book provides a straightforward introduction to teleology in biology, the work it did and the work it can do. Informed by history and philosophy, it focuses on scientific concerns. Seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth century biologists proposed a menagerie of biological “actors” to explain power without appealing to Aristotelian vegetable souls and final causes. Three constraints on teleology narrowed the field, selecting among the various actors as they mutated and recombined. Methodological naturalism, local adaptation, and blind chance each represent a significant philosophical advance in biology. Kant, Darwin, and the Modern Synthesis provided a new teleology, grounded in natural selection, an etiological recursion of form and function, and the details of carbon chemistry on Earth. They naturalized teleology, but they also finalized nature, shifting conceptions about the world and science. Understanding these links – historical, philosophical, and theoretical – sets the stage for new work moving forward.
Author : William Josiah Irons
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Page : 242 pages
File Size : 32,60 MB
Release : 1836
Category : Causation
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Author : Robert Boyle
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Page : 304 pages
File Size : 21,70 MB
Release : 1688
Category : Causation
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Author : Charles Daubeny
Publisher :
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 35,55 MB
Release : 1860
Category : Plants
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Author : Charles Daubeny
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 20,28 MB
Release : 1860
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Author : Charles Daubeny
Publisher :
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 37,87 MB
Release : 1860
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Author : Robert Boyle
Publisher :
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 16,95 MB
Release : 1688
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Author : Hugh SMITH (M.D., the Younger.)
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Page : 98 pages
File Size : 18,70 MB
Release : 1780
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