Philosophy of biology before biology / edited by Cécilia Bognon-Küss and Charles T. Wolfe.

• Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Notes; References; 1 The idea of 'philosophy of biology before biology': a methodological provocation; Philosophy of biology before biology: an absurd idea?; Biology and philosophy of biology; Biological philosophy and philosophy of biology; 'Historical epistemology of the life sciences' and philosophy of biology; Philosophy of biology before biology: biology and the conceptual conditions of its emergence; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes. 
• 3 Metaphysics and "vital" materialism: Émilie Du Châtelet and the origins of French vitalismIntroduction; Leibnizian organic machines; Leibnizianism among the French: Du Châtelet's synthesis; Buffon's organic molecules; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; 4 The philosophical uptake of Caspar Friedrich Wolff in German philosophy after 1770: Tetens, Herder, Kant and Blumenbach; Introduction; Caspar Friedrich Wolff and epigenesis; Johann Nicolaus Tetens; Johann Gottfried Herder; Immanuel Kant; Blumenbach between Kant and Wolff; Conclusion; Notes; References. 
• Part II: Organism and organization5 Senebier and the advent of general physiology; Introduction; Physiology and the functioning of plants; Extension of patterns to animal physiology; Conclusion; Notes; References; 6 Organization and process. Living systems between inner and outer worlds: Cuvier, Hufeland, Cabanis; Introduction; Cuvier's science of organized beings; Hufeland's reproductive organisms; Cabanis's organic networks of reaction centers; Concluding remarks; Notes; References; Part III: Systems. 
• 7 Philosophy of ecology long before ecology: Kant's idea of an organized system of organized beingsTwo traditions of defining ecology; Ecological ideas in the physico-theological tradition; Kant's systems thinking; Kant's ecology: "organizing systems of organized bodies"; Kant's contribution to ecology; References; 8 "All is leaf ": Goethe's plant philosophy and poetry; 1 The primal plant and its organ, the leaf; 2 The metamorphosis of the leaf; Conclusion; Abbreviations; Notes; References; 9 'Biologie': Lamarck's endeavor of a science of living entities; Introduction. 

• 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. 

Ämnesord

Naturuppfattning  -- historia (sao)

Biology  -- Philosophy -- History -- 18th century. (LCSH)

Biology  -- Philosophy -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)

Philosophy of nature  -- History -- 18th century. (LCSH)

Philosophy of nature  -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)

Philosophy of nature.  (fast)

Biology  -- Philosophy. (fast)

Biologi  -- teori, filosofi (sao)

Philosophy of nature - History  (LCSH)

1700-talet  (sao)

1800-talet  (barn)

1700-1899  (fast)

Genre

History.  (fast)

Electronic books. 

Klassifikation

QH305 (LCC)

570.1 (DDC)

Ue:d (kssb/8 (machine generated))