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