Final causes
Author: Paul Janet
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2024-01-08
Total Pages: 558
ISBN-13: 3385310946
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Author: Paul Janet
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2024-01-08
Total Pages: 558
ISBN-13: 3385310946
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Author: Lucas John Mix
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2022-10-31
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 3031140176
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a straightforward introduction to teleology in biology, the work it did and the work it can do. Informed by history and philosophy, it focuses on scientific concerns. Seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth century biologists proposed a menagerie of biological “actors” to explain power without appealing to Aristotelian vegetable souls and final causes. Three constraints on teleology narrowed the field, selecting among the various actors as they mutated and recombined. Methodological naturalism, local adaptation, and blind chance each represent a significant philosophical advance in biology. Kant, Darwin, and the Modern Synthesis provided a new teleology, grounded in natural selection, an etiological recursion of form and function, and the details of carbon chemistry on Earth. They naturalized teleology, but they also finalized nature, shifting conceptions about the world and science. Understanding these links – historical, philosophical, and theoretical – sets the stage for new work moving forward.
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Published: 1836
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Published: 1780
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Published: 1911
Total Pages: 690
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Published: 1883
Total Pages: 444
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Published: 1874
Total Pages: 594
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Published: 1878
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