The Biological way of thought / Morton Beckner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beckner, Morton, author.

Contributor:

University of California Press, publisher.

Mark B. Adams Emergence of Modern Science Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biology--Philosophy.

Biology.

Biology--Methodology.

Medical Subjects:

Biology.

Penn Provenance:

Adams, Mark B. (former owner) (Adams copies)

Physical Description:

viii, 200 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, University of California Press, 1968.

Contents:

I. Introduction

II. Types of Biological Concepts

III. Models in Biological Theory

IV. Systematics

V. Genetic Analysis and Explanation

VI. Functional Analysis

VII. Teleological Systems, Behavior and Explanation

VIII. Selection Theory

IX. Organization and Organismic Biology.

Notes:

"This study, prepared under the Graduate Faculties of Columbia University, was selected by a committee of those Faculties to receive one of the Clarke F. Ansley awards given annually by Columbia University Press."

"Copyright ©1959 Columbia University Press, New York ... First California Printing, 1968 (Cloth and Paper)."

Includes bibliographical references (pages [191]-195) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copies gifted by Dr. Mark B. Adams in 2018.

Adams copy 1 has stamp "History and Sociology of Science".

Adams copies are the paperback edition with "Campus 6" printed on spine.

OCLC:

368716