The life sciences in early modern philosophy

by Nachtomy, Ohad

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Full title :The life sciences in early modern philosophy / edited by Ohad Nachtomy and Justin E.H. Smith.

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Publication Date:©2013

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Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:New York, NY
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2013

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Includes index.

The Physical Object

Description:xiii, 256 pages ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780199987313, 0199987319
oclc:ocn869792083
LC Classification:QH331
Dewey Decimal:570.1

Infinity and life: the role of infinity in Leibniz's theory of living beings / Ohad Nachtomy -- What is life? A comparative study of Ralph Cudworth and Nehemiah Grew / Raphaële Andrault -- The impossibility of a "Newton of the blade of grass" in Kant's teleology / Thomas Teufel -- Fabricius's Galeno-Aristotelian teleomechanics of muscle / Peter Distelzweig -- Metaphysical problems in Francis Glisson's theory of irritability / Anne-Lise Rey -- The organism-mechanism relationship: an issue in the Leibniz-Stahl controversy / François Duchesneau -- Material causes and incomplete entities in Gallego de la Serna's theory of animal generation / Andreas Blank -- Biology and theology in Malebranche's theory of organic generation / Karen Detlefsen -- Réaumur's crayfish experiments in Hartsoeker's Systéme: regeneration and the limits of mechanism / Catherine Abou-Nemeh -- Epigenesis as Spinozism in Diderot's biological project / Charles T. Wolfe -- On the continuity of nature and the uniqueness of human life in G.W. Leibniz / Lea F. Schweitz -- Order of insects: insect species and metamorphosis between Renaissance and Enlightenment / Brian W. Ogilvie.