Vital Forces, Teleology and Organization Philosophy of Nature and the Rise of Biology in Germany /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Gambarotto, Andrea (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences,
• Θέματα: Biology-Philosophy.; History.; Philosophy of nature.; Philosophy of Biology.; History of Science.; Philosophy of Nature.

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...

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.