Vital forces, teleology and organization : philosophy of nature and the rise of biology in Germany /

Vital forces, teleology and organization : philosophy of nature and the rise of biology in Germany /

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This book offers a comprehensive account of vitalism and the Romantic philosophy of nature. The author explores the rise of biology as a unified science in Germany by reconstructing the history of the notion of "vital force," starting from the mid-eighteenth through the early nineteenth ce...

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Κύριος συγγραφέας: Gambarotto, Andrea (συγγραφέας.)
Μορφή: Βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Cham : Springer c2018.
Σειρά:History, philosophy and theory of the life sciences ; 21.
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Βιολογία > Φιλοσοφία
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Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • Introduction
  • I. Generation
  • 1. At the Origin of German Vitalism: the Haller-Wolff Debate
  • 2. Vital Force and Epigenesis: Wolff's Theory of Generation
  • 2.1. Discarding the Invisibility Argument
  • 2.2. The Progressive Organization of Parts
  • 3. Goal-Directed Organization: Wolff and Blumenbach on Teleology
  • 3.1. Wolff''s Vital-Materialism
  • 3.2. Realist-Teleological Vitalism: Blumenbach and the Bildungstrieb
  • 4. Understanding Purpose: Kant as a Vitalist
  • 4.1. Organized Beings and Machines: Kant on the Formative Force
  • 4.2. Kant's Regulative Vitalism
  • 5. Chemical Vitalism: Reil on the Vital Force
  • 5.1. Vital Force as Result of Organization
  • 5.2. Reil's Nomological Vitalism
  • 6. Concluding Remarks
  • II. Functions
  • 1. The Göttingen School as Historical Category
  • 2. Building Blocks of the Göttingen School: Haller on Vital Properties
  • 2.1. Irritability and Sensibility: First Outline of Vitalist Physiology
  • 2.2. "Vis Insita": Correlating Structure and Function
  • 3. Foundations of the Göttingen School: Vital Forces in Blumenbach's Physiology
  • 3.1. Fluid and Solid Parts of the Living Body
  • 3.2. Extending the Hallerian Model
  • 3.3. Force and Function
  • 4. Core of the Gottingen School: Kielmeyer's Lecture as Program for a General Biology
  • 5. Explanatory Framework of the Göttingen School: Link's Deflationist Approach
  • 6. Concluding Remarks
  • III. Classification
  • 1. Classificatory Frameworks in the Late-Eighteenth Century
  • 2. Blumenbach on Natural History
  • 3. The "Kantian Principle" for Natural History
  • 3.1. A New Principle?
  • 3.2. Ideas so Monstrous that Reason Recoils Before Them: Kant on Transformism
  • 3.3. Phyletic Origin: Kant and Girtanner on Archetypes
  • 4. The Unity of Plan in Goethe's Morphology
  • 4.1. Metamorphosis as Idealized Epigenesis: Goethe's Relation to Wolff and Blumenbach
  • 4.2. Archetype and Compensation: Goethe's Relation to Kielmeyer
  • 5. "Vital-Materialism" and Naturphilosophie
  • 5.1. "A New Epoch of Natural History": Schelling's Relation to Kielmeyer
  • 5.2. The Unity of Plan in the Erster Entwurf
  • 6. Transcendental Morphology: a Legacy of Naturphilosophie
  • 6.1. Unity of Plan and Vertebrate Theory: Oken's Transcendental Morphology
  • 6.2. Transcendental Morphology outside Germany: Geoffroy and Owen
  • 7. Concluding Remarks
  • IV. Biology
  • 1. A New Epistemological Field
  • 1.1. The Transformation of Natural History
  • 1.2. Defining Life
  • 1.3. Vital Force
  • 2. The Göttingen School in the Biologie
  • 2.1. Epigenesis and Biology
  • 2.2. Reproductive Force in the Animal Kingdom
  • 3. Naturphilosophie in the Biologie
  • 3.1. Mechanism and Teleology
  • 3.2. Nature and Spirit
  • 4. Ecology and Transformation
  • 4.1. Distribution of Living Forms
  • 4.2. Transformation of Living Forms
  • 5. Treviranus and Lamarck: Notes for a Comparative Perspective
  • 6. Concluding Remarks
  • Conclusion.

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