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The life sciences in early modern philosophy / edited by Ohad Nachtomy and Justin E. H. Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biology--Philosophy.
- Biology.
- Evolution (Biology).
- Life sciences--Philosophy.
- Life sciences.
- Biological Evolution.
- Philosophy.
- Medical Subjects:
- Biology.
- Biological Evolution.
- Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 256 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This collection advances a recent historiographical turn towards the intersection of early modern philosophy and the life sciences by bringing together many of its leading scholars to present the contributions of important but often neglected figures, such as Ralph Cudworth, Nehemiah Grew, Francis Glisson, Hieronymus Fabricius ab Aquapendente, Georg Ernst Stahl, Juan Gallego de la Serna, Nicholas Hartsoeker, Henry More, as well as more familiar figures such as Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, and Malebranche.
- Contents:
- Infinity and life: the role of infinity in Leibniz's theory of living beings / Ohad Nachtomy
- What is life? A comparative study of Ralph Cudworth and Nehemiah Grew / Raphaële Andrault
- The impossibility of a "Newton of the blade of grass" in Kant's teleology / Thomas Teufel
- Fabricius's Galeno-Aristotelian teleomechanics of muscle / Peter Distelzweig
- Metaphysical problems in Francis Glisson's theory of irritability / Anne-Lise Rey
- The organism-mechanism relationship: an issue in the Leibniz-Stahl controversy / François Duchesneau
- Material causes and incomplete entities in Gallego de la Serna's theory of animal generation / Andreas Blank
- Biology and theology in Malebranche's theory of organic generation / Karen Detlefsen
- Réaumur's crayfish experiments in Hartsoeker's Systéme: regeneration and the limits of mechanism / Catherine Abou-Nemeh
- Epigenesis as Spinozism in Diderot's biological project / Charles T. Wolfe
- On the continuity of nature and the uniqueness of human life in G.W. Leibniz / Lea F. Schweitz
- Order of insects: insect species and metamorphosis between Renaissance and Enlightenment / Brian W. Ogilvie.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-934624-0
- 0-19-998732-7
- OCLC:
- 875485621
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