Vitalism and the Scientific Image in Post-Enlightenment Life Science, 1800-2010
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ISBN-13:
9789400724440
Veröffentl:
2013
Einband:
HC runder Rücken kaschiert
Erscheinungsdatum:
28.06.2013
Seiten:
384
Autor:
Charles T. Wolfe
Gewicht:
740 g
Format:
241x160x27 mm
Serie:
2, History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Vitalism is understood as impacting the history of the life sciences, medicine and philosophy, representing an epistemological challenge to the dominance of mechanism over the last 200 years, and partly revived with organicism in early theoretical biology. The contributions in this volume portray the history of vitalism from the end of the Enlightenment to the modern day, suggesting some reassessment of what it means both historically and conceptually. As such it includes a wide range of material, employing both historical and philosophical methodologies, and it is divided fairly evenly between 19th and 20th century historical treatments and more contemporary analysis. This volume presents a significant contribution to the current literature in the history and philosophy of science and the history of medicine.
First comprehensive overview of Vitalism: an idea with ever increasing relevance to modern biological theory
and the Organismic Approach.- 9. Giuseppe Bianco (Paris/Warwick); The Origins of Canguilhem's "Vitalism": Against the Anthropology of Irritation.- Part III. Vitalism and contemporary biological developments.- 10. J. Scott Turner (Syracuse); Homeostasis and the forgotten vitalist roots of adaptation.- 11. Carlos Sonnenschein, David Lee, Jonathan Nguyen and Ana Soto (Tufts); Unanticipated trends stemming from the history of cell culture: Vitalism in 2012?.- 12. John Dupré and Maureen O'Malley (Exeter); Varieties of living things: Life at the intersection of lineage and metabolism.- 13. William Bechtel (UCSD); Dynamic Mechanistic Explanation: Addressing the Vitalists' Objections to Mechanistic Science.
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