Integral biomathics: tracing the road to reality
Zusammenfassung: The emergence of biology as a distinct science in the eighteenth century has long been a subject of scholarly controversy. Michel Foucault, for one, argued that its appearance only after 1800 represented a fundamental rupture with the natural history that preced…
Kant's theory of biology
Kant's Theory of Biology
Biographical note: Ina Goy, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany; Eric Watkins, University of California, San Diego, USA. Kant's theory of biology has emerged as an important field of study within Kant scholarship. The volume Kant's Theory of Biology contains 15 essays …
Kant's theory of biology
Kant's theory of biology has emerged as an important field of study within Kant scholarship. This title discusses topics that include 17th- and 18th-century biological theories, the development of Kant's views on biology, the teleology of nature in the Critique of the Power of J…
Kant's theory of biology
Kant's theory of biology has emerged as an important field of study within Kant scholarship. The volume Kant's Theory of Biology contains 15 essays by leading international Kant scholars and philosophers of biology. Topics discussed include 17th- and 18th-century biological theo…
"For centuries, it was believed that the only scientific approach to the question "What is life?" must proceed from the Cartesian metaphor (organism as machine). Classical approaches in science, which also borrow heavily from Newtonian mechanics, are based on a process called "r…
Zufall und Notwendigkeit: philos. Fragen d. modernen Biologie
by Monod, Jacques, Monod, Jacques
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