| Description |
xxi, 416 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
The evolution of modern philosophy
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Evolution of modern philosophy.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-392) and index. |
| Contents |
Aristotle and after -- Descartes, Harvey and the emergence of modern mechanism -- Eighteenth century: Buffon -- Eighteenth century II: Kant the development of German biology -- Before Darwin I: A continental controversy -- Before Darwin II: British controversies about geology and natural theology -- Darwin -- Evolution and heredity from Darwin to the rise of genetics -- Modern evolutionary synthesis and its discontents -- Some themes in recent philosophy of biology: The species problem, reducibility, function and Teleology -- Biology and human nature -- Philosophy of biology and the philosophy of science. |
| Subject |
Biology -- Philosophy -- History.
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Biology -- Philosophy. |
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History. |
| Added Author |
Depew, David J., 1942-
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| ISBN |
0521643805 paperback |
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0521643716 hardback |
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