The problem of animal generation in early modern philosophy /

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Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Smith, Justin E. H. (επιμελητής)
Μορφή: Βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
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Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • The comparative study of animal development : from Aristotle to William Harvey's Aristotelianism / James G. Lennox
  • Monsters, nature, and generation from the Renaissance to the early modern period : the emergence of medical thought / Annie Bitbol-Hespériès
  • Descartes' experiments and the generation of animals / Vincent Aucante
  • Imagination and the problem of heredity in mechanist embryology / Justin E.H. Smith
  • The soul as vehicle for genetic information : Gassendi's account of inheritance / Saul Fisher
  • Atoms and minds in Walter Charleton's theory of animal generation / Andreas Blank
  • Animal generation and substance in Sennert and Leibniz / Richard T.W. Arthur
  • Spontaneous and sexual generation in Conway's Principles / Deborah Boyle
  • Malebranche on animal generation : preexistence and the microscope / Andrew Pyle
  • Animal as category : Bayle's "Rorarius" / Dennis Des Chene
  • Explanation and demonstration in the Haller-Wolff debate / Karen Detlefsen
  • Soul power : Georg Ernst Stahl and the debate on generation / Francesco Paolo de Ceglia
  • Charles Bonnet's neo-Leibnizian theory of organic bodies / François Duchesneau
  • Kant's early views on epigenesis : the role of Maupertuis / John Zammito
  • Blumenbach and Kant on mechanism and teleology in nature : the case of the formative drive / Brandon C. Look
  • Kant and the speculative sciences or origins / Catherine Wilson
  • Kant and evolution / Michael Ruse.