Vitalism and its legacy in twentieth century life sciences and philosophy /

Vitalism and its legacy in twentieth century life sciences and philosophy / / edited by Christopher Donohue, Charles T. Wolfe.

This Open Access book combines philosophical and historical analysis of various forms of alternatives to mechanism and mechanistic explanation, focusing on the 19th century to the present. It addresses vitalism, organicism and responses to materialism and its relevance to current biological science....

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Superior document:History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences, 29
HerausgeberIn:
Donohue, Christopher.
Wolfe, Charles T.
Place / Publishing House:Cham : : Springer International Publishing :, Imprint: Springer,, 2023.
Year of Publication:2023
Edition:1st ed. 2023.
Language:English
Series:History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences, 29
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (viii, 269 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Brooke Holmes (Princeton): The Two-Soul Problem: Aristotle, the Stoics, Galen
  • 2. Hannah Landecker: Metabolic Materialism
  • 3. Christopher Donohue (NIH): “Concerning the Tenacious Adherence of Animal Spirit to Matter"
  • 4. Crystal Hall (Bowdoin College) and Erik L. Peterson (University of Alabama): Who were the vitalists and where did they go?
  • 5. Jane Maienschein (ASU): Early Twentieth Century Accounts of the Individuality of Organized Whole Organisms
  • 6. Bohang Chen (Ghent): Hans Driesch and vitalism: the standpoint of logical empiricism
  • 7. Mazviita Chirimuuta (Pittsburgh): The Critical Difference between Holism and Vitalism in Cassirer’s Philosophy of Science
  • 8. Tano S. Posteraro (Penn State): Vitalism and the Problem of Individuation: Another Look at Bergson’s Élan Vital
  • 9. Sebastjan Vörös (Ljubljana): Is there not a truth of vitalism? Transcendental vitalism in light of Goldstein, Merleau-Ponty, and Varela
  • 10. Arantza Exteberria (IAS, San Sebastian) and Charles T. Wolfe (Ghent): Canguilhem and the logic of life
  • 11. Phillip Honenberger (UNLV): All Knowing is Orientation: Marjorie Grene's Ecological Epistemology
  • 12. Alvaro Moreno (IAS, San Sebastian): What is life? The historical dimension of biological organization
  • 13. Cécilia Bognon-Küss (Louvain-La Neuve): The concept of metabolism, biological identity and the challenges from microbiome research.

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