Life Sciences in Early Modern Philosophy

Life Sciences in Early Modern Philosophy

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Oxford University Press Inc

02/2014

272

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Inglês

9780199987313

15 a 20 dias

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Table of Contents ; 1. Introduction: Ohad Nachtomy and Justin E. H. Smith ; I. The Nature of Living Beings ; 2. Ohad Nachtomy, "What's Infinity Got to Do with Life? The Role of Infinity in Leibniz's Theory of Living Beings" ; 3. Raphaele Andrault, "What Is Life? A Comparative Study of Ralph Cudworth and Nehemiah Grew" ; 4. Thomas Teufel, "The Impossibility of a Newton of the Blade of Grass in Kant's Teleology" ; II. The Structure of Living Beings ; 5. Peter Distelzweig, "Fabricius' Galeno-Aristotelian Teleomechanics of Muscle Anatomy" ; 6. Anne-Lise Rey, "Metaphysical Problems in Francis Glisson's Irritability Theory" ; 7. Francois Duchesneau, "'Organism' in the Leibniz-Stahl Controversy" ; III. The Generation of Living Beings ; 8. Andreas Blank, "Material Causes and Incomplete Entities in Gallego de la Serna's Theory of Animal Generation" ; 9. Karen Detlefsen, "Biology and Theology in Malebranche's Theory of Organic Generation" ; 10. Catherine Abou-Nemeh, "Reaumur's Crayfish Experiment in Hartsoeker's Systeme: Regeneration and the Limits of Mechanism" ; 11. Charles T. Wolfe, "Epigenesis as Spinozism in Diderot's Biological Project" ; IV. The Order of the Living World ; 12. Lea F. Schweitz, "On the Continuity of Nature and the Uniqueness of Human Life in G. W. Leibniz" ; 13. Brian W. Ogilvie, "Orders of Insects: Insect Species and Metamorphosis between Renaissance and Enlightenment" ; Index
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