End of Final Causes in Biology

End of Final Causes in Biology

Mix, Lucas John

Springer International Publishing AG

11/2022

149

Dura

Inglês

9783031140167

15 a 20 dias

346

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1. An End to Ends?.- 2. What Makes Life Life-Like? The Dynamic Continuity of Living Things.- 3. Vegetable Souls in the Middle Ages.- 4. Mechanical Organisms in the Enlightenment.- 5. Who "Acts" in Biology? Biological Agents from Souls to Genes.- 6. Genes: The New Biological Agent.- 7. Can Teleology Be Saved? Three Constraints on Bioteleology.- 8. Genes and Natural Selection Finalize Nature.
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philosophy of biology;teleology;evolutionary theory;philosophy of science;darwin