Philosophy of Biology Before Biology

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-138-65287-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 520 g

Reihe: History and Philosophy of Biology

The use of the term "biology" to refer to a unified science of life emerged around 1800 (most prominently by scientists such as Lamarck and Treviranus, although scholarship has indicated its usage at least 30-40 years earlier). The interplay between philosophy and natural science has also accompanied the constitution of biology as a science.

Philosophy of Biology Before Biology examines biological and protobiological writings from the mid-eighteenth century to the early nineteenth century (from Buffon to Cuvier; Kant to Oken; and Kielmeyer) with two major sets of questions in mind:

- What were the distinctive conceptual features of the move toward biology as a science?

- What were the relations and differences between the "philosophical" focus on the nature of living entities, and the "scientific" focus?

This insightful volume produces a fresh but also systematic perspective both on the history of biology as a science and on the early versions of, in the 1960s in a post-positivist context, the philosophy of biology. It will appeal to students and researchers interested in fields such as history of science, philosophy of science and biology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bognon-Küss, Cécilia

Wolfe, Charles T.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

- Cécilia Bognon-Küss & Charles T. Wolfe. The idea of "philosophy of biology before biology": a methodological provocation

Part I. FORM AND DEVELOPMENT

- Stéphane Schmitt. Buffon’s theories of generation and the changing dialectics of molds and molecules

- Phillip Sloan. Metaphysics and "Vital" Materialism: The Gabrielle Du Châtelet Circle and French Vitalism

- John Zammito. The Philosophical Reception of C. F. Wolff’s Epigenesis in Germany, 1770-1790: Herder, Tetens and Kant

Part II. ORGANISM & ORGANIZATION

- François Duchesneau. Senebier and the Advent of General Physiology

- Tobias Cheung. Organization and Process. Living Systems Between Inner and Outer Worlds: Cuvier, Hufeland, Cabanis.

Part III. SYSTEMS

- Georg Toepfer. Philosophy of Ecology Long Before Ecology: Kant’s Idea of an Organized System of Organized Beings

- Ina Goy. "All is leaf". Goethe's plant philosophy and poetry

- Snait Gissis. 'Biologie': Lamarck's endeavor of a science of living entities

POSTSCRIPTS

- Lynn Nyhart. A Historical Proposal Around Prepositions

- Philippe Huneman. Philosophy after Philosophy of Biology before Biology

Cécilia Bognon-Küss and Charles T. Wolfe. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Cécilia Bognon-Küss is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Paris 7 ('Who am I?' Labex).

Charles T. Wolfe is a researcher in the Department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences, Ghent University, Belgium.