Annals of the History and Philosophy of Biology. / Volume 23 / / Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte und Theorie der Biologie.

• VerfasserIn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte und Theorie der Biologie,
• Place / Publishing House: [Place of publication not identified] : : Universitätsverlag Göttingen,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (195 pages)

The name DGGTB (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte und Theorie der Biologie; German Society for the History and Philosophy of Biology) reflects recent history as well as German tradition. The Society is a relatively late addition to a series of German societies of science and medicine that began with the "Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Medizin und der Naturwissenschaften", founded in 1910 by Leipzig University's Karl Sudhoff (1853-1938), who wrote: "We want to establish a 'German' society in order to gather German-speaking historians together in our special disciplines so that they form the core of an international society ...". Yet Sudhoff, at this time of burgeoning academic internationalism, was "quite willing" to accommodate the wishes of a number of founding members and "drop the word German in the title of the Society and have it merge with an international society". The founding and naming of the Society at that time derived from a specifi c set of historical circumstances, and the same was true some 80 years later when in 1991, in the wake of German reunification, the "Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte und Theorie der Biologie" was founded. From the start, the Society has been committed to bringing studies in the history and philosophy of biology to a wide audience, using for this purpose its Jahrbuch für Geschichte und Theorie der Biologie. Parallel to the Jahrbuch, the Verhandlungen zur Geschichte und Theorie der Biologie has become the by now traditional medium for the publication of papers delivered at the Society's annual meetings. In 2005 the Jahrbuch was renamed Annals of the History and Philosophy of Biology, refl ecting the Society's internationalist aspirations in addressing comparative biology as a subject of historical and philosophical studies.

Table of Contents

Olaf Breidbach, Michael T. Ghiselin Baroque Classification: A Missing Chapter in the History of Systematics . 1 -- Rudolf Hagemann: Curt Stern (1902 - 1981) Drosophila-Genetiker und Human-Genetiker in Deutschland und den USA . 31 -- David Hull Essentialism in Taxonomy: Four Decades Later . 47 -- Hans Werner Ingensiep Organism, Epigenesis, and Life in Kant´s Thinking - Biophilosophy between transcendental philosophy,intuitive analogy, and empirical ontology 59 -- Ulrich Kutschera, V. M. Epshtein Nikolaj A. Livanow (1876 - 1974) and the living relict Acanthobdella peledina (Annelida, Clitellata) 85 -- Georgy S. Levit & Lennart Olsson "Evolution on Rails": Mechanisms and Levels of Orthogenesis 99 -- James Moore Wallace in Wonderland 139 -- Kärin Nickelsen "In deutlichen Beschreibungen und richtigen Zeichnungen gemeinnütziger" - Abbildungen in der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin (GNF), 1773-1800 155 -- Rosemarie Nöthlich, Nadine Wetzel, Uwe Hoßfeld & Lennart Olsson "Ich acquirirte das Schwein sofort, ließ nach dem Niederstechen die Pfoten abhacken u. schickte dieselben an Darwin" - Der Briefwechsel von Otto Zacharias mit Ernst Haeckel (1874-1898) . 177 -- Hans-Jörg Rheinberger Internationalism and the History of Molecular Biology . 249.