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The understanding of nature : essays in the philosophy of biology /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Grene, Marjorie, 1910-2009 (autor)
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:English
Colección:Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 23
Materias:
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Causes
  • Three aspects of perception
  • Biology and the problem of levels of reality
  • Reducibility
  • Aristotle and modern biology
  • Is genus to species as matter to form?--Two evolutionary theories
  • Statistics and selection
  • Biology and teleology
  • Bohm's metaphysics and biology
  • Darwin and philosophy
  • Explanation and evolution
  • On the nature of natural necessity
  • On some distinctions between men and brutes
  • The characters of living things. I: the biological philosophy of Adolf Portmann
  • The characters of living things. II: The phenomenology of Erwin Straus
  • The characters of living things. III: Helmuth Plessner's theory of organic models [sic]
  • People and other animals.