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Author |
: Pierre-Olivier Méthot |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 322 |
Release |
: 2023-06-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783031281570 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3031281578 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis Philosophy, History and Biology: Essays in Honour of Jean Gayon by : Pierre-Olivier Méthot
This book builds on recent scholarship highlighted in the edited collections, Philosophie, histoire, biologie: mélanges offerts à Jean Gayon (Merlin & Huneman, 2018) and Knowledge of Life Today (Gayon & Petit 2018/2019). While honoring the career and the thought of Jean Gayon (1949-2018), this book showcases the continued relevance of Gayon’s interdisciplinary work and illustrates his central place in the community of historians and philosophers of the life sciences. Chapters in this book address Jean Gayon’s intellectual trajectory from historical epistemology to the philosophy of biology, the nature and scope of his philosophical approach to the history of science, and his unique contributions to the history and epistemology of biological concepts and theories. Drawing on published and unpublished sources, the book explores some of Gayon’s most significant contributions to the philosophy, history, and social studies of biology.
Author |
: Bohang Chen |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 308 |
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: |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783031706905 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3031706900 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis On the Riddle of Life by : Bohang Chen
Author |
: Michel Veuille |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 291 |
Release |
: 2024-06-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781040086674 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1040086675 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sex, Gender, Ethics and the Darwinian Evolution of Mankind by : Michel Veuille
Sex, Gender, Ethics and the Darwinian Evolution of Mankind examines the impact of Darwin’s Descent of Man on contemporary biology and the humanities. Its publication in 1871 was a founding event in anthropology. Its content was primarily concerned with the development of sexual life, social life and intellectual life, not only as outcomes of evolution, but as components that have actively intermixed over time with the evolutionary mechanism of natural selection. The stamp of Darwinism on modern thought is still very important and brings novelties to academic studies. Several fields influenced by Darwinian anthropology developed in recent decades, including evolutionary ethics, the evolution of sociality and sexual communication in animal and plant species. Sociobiology and evolutionary psychology are topics that draw heavily on Darwin’s Descent of Man. The understanding of Darwin’s thought has also progressed greatly in recent decades, following the systematic study of Darwin’s correspondence and notebooks, leading to a reassessment of the development of his thought on humans, social groups and heredity, and how they come together in his theory of evolution. The book combines a historical perspective on Darwin’s achievement and his legacy. It will be of interest to students and scholars in a variety of fields, from experimental biology to the social and historical sciences.
Author |
: Jean Gayon |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 348 |
Release |
: 2019-04-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781119610489 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1119610486 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis Knowledge of Life Today by : Jean Gayon
Knowledge of Life Today presents the thoughts of Jean Gayon, a major philosopher of science in France who is recognized across the Atlantic, especially for his work in philosophy and the history of life sciences. The book is structured around Gayon's personal answers to questions put forward by Victor Petit. This approach combines scientific rigor and risk-taking in answers that go back to the fundamentals of the subject. As well as the relationship between philosophy and the history of science, Gayon discusses the main questions of the history and philosophy of biology that marked his intellectual journey: Darwin, evolutionary biology, genetics and molecular biology, human evolution, and various aspects of the relationship between biology and society in contemporary times (racism, eugenics, biotechnology, biomedicine, etc.).
Author |
: Heather Keenleyside |
Publisher |
: University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages |
: 281 |
Release |
: 2016-10-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780812293302 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0812293304 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis Animals and Other People by : Heather Keenleyside
In Animals and Other People, Heather Keenleyside argues for the central role of literary modes of knowledge in apprehending animal life. Keenleyside focuses on writers who populate their poetry, novels, and children's stories with conspicuously figurative animals, experiment with conventional genres like the beast fable, and write the "lives" of mice as well as men. From such writers—including James Thomson, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Laurence Sterne, Anna Letitia Barbauld, and others—she recovers a key insight about the representation of living beings: when we think and write about animals, we are never in the territory of strictly literal description, relying solely on the evidence of our senses. Indeed, any description of animals involves personification of a sort, if we understand personification not as a rhetorical ornament but as a fundamental part of our descriptive and conceptual repertoire, essential for distinguishing living beings from things. Throughout the book, animals are characterized by a distinctive mode of agency and generality; they are at once moving and being moved, at once individual beings and generic or species figures (every cat is also "The Cat"). Animals thus become figures with which to think about key philosophical questions about the nature of human agency and of social and political community. They also come into view as potential participants in that community, as one sort of "people" among others. Demonstrating the centrality of animals to an eighteenth-century literary and philosophical tradition, Animals and Other People also argues for the importance of this tradition to current discussions of what life is and how we might live together.
Author |
: Jean Gayon |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 332 |
Release |
: 1998-08-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521562503 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521562508 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis Darwinism's Struggle for Survival by : Jean Gayon
A rich and wide-ranging philosophical interpretation of the history of theoretical Darwinism.
Author |
: William Morton Wheeler |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 296 |
Release |
: 1967 |
ISBN-10 |
: CORNELL:31924000966469 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Essays in Philosophical Biology by : William Morton Wheeler
Author |
: Allen D. Breck |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 372 |
Release |
: 1974 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1468416960 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781468416961 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Biology, History, and Natural Philosophy by : Allen D. Breck
Author |
: Robert H. Kretsinger |
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: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2015 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9814635057 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789814635059 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis History and Philosophy of Biology by : Robert H. Kretsinger
Author |
: Roger M. White |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 261 |
Release |
: 2021-11-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108851657 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108851657 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Darwin's Argument by Analogy by : Roger M. White
In On the Origin of Species (1859), Charles Darwin put forward his theory of natural selection. Conventionally, Darwin's argument for this theory has been understood as based on an analogy with artificial selection. But there has been no consensus on how, exactly, this analogical argument is supposed to work – and some suspicion too that analogical arguments on the whole are embarrassingly weak. Drawing on new insights into the history of analogical argumentation from the ancient Greeks onward, as well as on in-depth studies of Darwin's public and private writings, this book offers an original perspective on Darwin's argument, restoring to view the intellectual traditions which Darwin took for granted in arguing as he did. From this perspective come new appreciations not only of Darwin's argument but of the metaphors based on it, the range of wider traditions the argument touched upon, and its legacies for science after the Origin.