Natural Born Monads : : On the Metaphysics of Organisms and Human Individuals /

Natural Born Monads : : On the Metaphysics of Organisms and Human Individuals / / ed. by Andrea Altobrando, Pierfrancesco Biasetti.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
MitwirkendeR:
Akimoto, Yusuke,
Altobrando, Andrea,
Angleraux, Caroline,
Biasetti, Pierfrancesco,
Bordignon, Michela,
Desmond, Hugh,
Gambarotto, Andrea,
Huneman, Philippe,
Illetterati, Luca,
Itabashi, Yūjin,
Kocis, Robert,
Morisato, Takeshi,
Moss, Lenny,
Nunziante, Antonio M.,
Rockmore, Tom,
Sanguinetti, Federico,
HerausgeberIn:
Altobrando, Andrea,
Biasetti, Pierfrancesco,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VI, 337 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Natural Born Monads
  • Between Laws and Norms. Genesis of the Concept of Organism in Leibniz and in the Early Modern Western Philosophy
  • The Ontology of Organismic Agency: A Kantian Approach
  • Teleology, Backward Causation and Contradiction. Hegel’s Dialectical Account of Organic Nature
  • Being Rational: Hegel on the Human Way of Being
  • Hegel and the Question “What Characterizes Human Beings qua Animal Organisms of a Specific Sort?”
  • Marx’s Philosophy on Natural History
  • From Monads to Monera
  • Idealism and Darwin – Rejection, Accommodation, Appropriation: James Hutchison Stirling and David George Ritchie
  • Biology and the Philosophy of History: Nishida Kitarō and the Philosophy of “Necessity that Includes Freedom”
  • Tanabe Hajime and the Concept of Species: Approaching Nature as a Missing Shade in the Logic of Species
  • Teleology, Life, and Cognition: Reconsidering Jonas’ Legacy for a Theory of the Organism
  • Dialectical Thinking and Science: The Case of Richard Lewontin, Dialectical Biologist
  • Can Normativity be the Force of Nature that Solves the Problem of Partes Extra Partes? Episode IV – A New Hope – Natural Detachment and the Case of the Hybrid Hominin
  • Towards a Constructivist Approach to Human Nature
  • Index of names

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