The Life Sciences in Early Modern Philosophy

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New York, NY: Oup Usa (2014)
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This volume explores the intersection between early modern philosophy and the life sciences by presenting the contributions of important but often neglected figures such as Cudworth, Grew, Glisson, Hieronymus Fabricius, Stahl, Gallego, Hartsoeker, and More, as well as familiar figures such as Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Malebranche, and Kant

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QH331.L538 2014

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9780199987313   0199987319

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10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199987313.001.0001

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Metaphysical Problems in Theory’s of Francis Glisson’s irritability.Anne-Lise Rey
Infinity and Life.  (pages 8-28)Ohad Nachtomy
What Is Life?  (pages 29-46)Raphaële Andrault
The Impossibility of a “Newton of the Blade of Grass” in Kant’s Teleology.  (pages 47-61)Thomas Teufel
Fabricius’s Galeno-Aristotelian Teleomechanics of Muscle.  (pages 64-84)Peter Distelzweig
Metaphysical Problems in Francis Glisson’s Theory of Irritability.  (pages 85-97)Anne-Lise Rey
The Organism-Mechanism Relationship.  (pages 98-114)François Duchesneau
Material Causes and Incomplete Entities in Gallego de la Serna’s Theory of Animal Generation.  (pages 117–136)Andreas Blank
Biology and Theology in Malebranche's Theory of Organic Generation.  (pages 137-156)Karen Detlefsen
Réaumur’s Crayfish Experiments in Hartsoeker’s Système.  (pages 157-180)Catherine Abou-Nemeh
Epigenesis as Spinozism in Diderot’s biological project (draft).  (pages 181-201)Charles T. Wolfe
On the Continuity of Nature and the Uniqueness of Human Life in G. W. Leibniz.  (pages 204-221)Lea F. Schweitz
Order of Insects.  (pages 222-245)Brian W. Ogilvie

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