| spelling |
oapen-20.500.12657-607972024-03-27T14:15:06Z Vitalism and Its Legacy in Twentieth Century Life Sciences and Philosophy Donohue, Christopher Wolfe, Charles T. development of natural history case-study pointillism history of biology history and sociology life science and philosophy history of science organicism history and philosophy of the life sciences thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine This Open Access book combines philosophical and historical analysis of various forms of alternatives to mechanism and mechanistic explanation, focusing on the 19th century to the present. It addresses vitalism, organicism and responses to materialism and its relevance to current biological science. In doing so, it promotes dialogue and discussion about the historical and philosophical importance of vitalism and other non-mechanistic conceptions of life. It points towards the integration of genomic science into the broader history of biology. It details a broad engagement with a variety of nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first century vitalisms and conceptions of life. In addition, it discusses important threads in the history of concepts in the United States and Europe, including charting new reception histories in eastern and south-eastern Europe. While vitalism, organicism and similar epistemologies are often the concern of specialists in the history and philosophy of biology and of historians of ideas, the range of the contributions as well as the geographical and temporal scope of the volume allows for it to appeal to the historian of science and the historian of biology generally. 2023-01-20T16:53:41Z 2023-01-20T16:53:41Z 2023 book ONIX_20230120_9783031126048_18 9783031126048 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/60797 eng History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences application/pdf n/a 978-3-031-12604-8.pdf https://link.springer.com/978-3-031-12604-8 Springer Nature Springer International Publishing 10.1007/978-3-031-12604-8 10.1007/978-3-031-12604-8 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 26a86ebd-335f-4de8-b3be-6e338389b6f4 9783031126048 Springer International Publishing 29 269 Cham [...] open access
|
| description |
This Open Access book combines philosophical and historical analysis of various forms of alternatives to mechanism and mechanistic explanation, focusing on the 19th century to the present. It addresses vitalism, organicism and responses to materialism and its relevance to current biological science. In doing so, it promotes dialogue and discussion about the historical and philosophical importance of vitalism and other non-mechanistic conceptions of life. It points towards the integration of genomic science into the broader history of biology. It details a broad engagement with a variety of nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first century vitalisms and conceptions of life. In addition, it discusses important threads in the history of concepts in the United States and Europe, including charting new reception histories in eastern and south-eastern Europe. While vitalism, organicism and similar epistemologies are often the concern of specialists in the history and philosophy of biology and of historians of ideas, the range of the contributions as well as the geographical and temporal scope of the volume allows for it to appeal to the historian of science and the historian of biology generally.
|
