The problem of animal generation in early modern philosophy / edited by Justin E.H. Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith-Ruiu, Justin

Hazel M. Hussong Fund.

Series:

Cambridge studies in philosophy and biology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reproduction.

Domestic animals--Reproduction.

Domestic animals.

Animals (Philosophy).

Embryology.

Physical Description:

xiii, 456 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Summary:

Examines the early modern science of generation, analyzing its influences on contemporary philosophical questions.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-445) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Hazel M. Hussong Fund.

ISBN:

0521840775

9780521840774

OCLC:

61453841

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