The life sciences in early modern philosophy

This collection advances a recent historiographical turn towards the intersection of early modern philosophy and the life sciences by bringing together many of its leading scholars to present the contributions of important but often neglected figures, such as Ralph Cudworth, Nehemiah Grew, Francis Glisson, Hieronymus Fabricius ab Aquapendente, Georg Ernst Stahl, Juan Gallego de la Serna, Nicholas Hartsoeker, Henry More, as well as more familiar figures such as Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, and Malebranche.

""Cover""; ""The Life Sciences in Early Modern Philosophy""; ""Copyright""; ""CONTENTS""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""About the Contributors""; ""Introduction ""; ""PART ONE THE NATURE OF LIVING BEINGS ""; ""1. Infinity and Life: The Role of Infinity in Leibniz�s Theory of Living Beings ""; ""2. What Is Life? A Comparative Study of Ralph Cudworth and Nehemiah Grew ""

""3. The Impossibility of a “Newton of the Blade of Grass� in Kant�s Teleology """"PART TWO THE STRUCTURE OF LIVING BEINGS ""; ""4. Fabricius�s Galeno-Aristotelian Teleomechanics of Muscle ""; ""5. Metaphysical Problems in Francis Glisson�s Theory of Irritability ""

""6. The Organism-Mechanism Relationship: An Issue in the Leibniz-Stahl Controversy""""PART THREE THE GENERATION OF LIVING BEINGS ""; ""7. Material Causes and Incomplete Entities in Gallego de la Serna�s Theory of Animal Generation ""; ""8. Biology and Theology in Malebranche�s Theory of Organic Generation ""

""9. Réaumur�s Crayfish Experiments in Hartsoeker�s Syst�me : Regeneration and the Limits of Mechanism """"10. Epigenesis as Spinozism in Diderot�s Biological Project ""; ""PART FOUR THE ORDER OF THE LIVING WORLD ""

""11. On the…