The Problem of Animal Generation in Early Modern Philosophy

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Cambridge University Press (2006)
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In this volume Smith examines the early modern science of generation, which included the study of animal conception, heredity, and fetal development. Analyzing how it influenced the contemporary treatment of traditional philosophical questions, it also demonstrates how philosophical pre-suppositions about mechanism, substance, and cause informed the interpretations offered by those conducting empirical research on animal reproduction. Composed of essays written by an international team of leading scholars, the book offers a fresh perspective on some of the basic problems in early modern philosophy. It also considers how these basic problems manifested themselves within an area of scientific inquiry that had not previously received much consideration by historians of philosophy.

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QP251.P76 2006

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9780511498572   9781107407282   9780521840774   0521840775   1107407281
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Animal generation and substance in sennert and Leibniz.Richard Arthur
Descartes' experiments and the generation of animals.Vincent Aucante
Monsters, nature, and generation from the renaissance to the early modern period : The emergence of medical thought.Annie Bitbol-Hespériès
Atoms and minds in Walter Charleton's theory of animal generation.Andreas Blank
Spontaneous and sexual generation in Conway's principles.Deborah Boyle
Soul power : Georg Ernst Stahl and the debate on generation.Francesco Paolo de Ceglia
Animal as category : Bayle's "Rorarius".Dennis Des Chene
Explanation and demonstration in the Haller-Wolff debate.Karen Detlefsen
Charles Bonnet's neo-Leibnizian theory of organic bodies.François Duchesneau
The soul as vehicle for genetic information : Gassendi's account of inheritance.Saul Fisher
The comparative study of animal development : From Aristotle to William Harvey's aristotelianism.James G. Lennox
The Comparative Study of Animal Development: William Harvey's Aristotelianism.”.James G. Lennox
Blumenbach and Kant on Mechanism and Teleology in Nature: The Case of the Formative Drive.Brandon C. Look
Malebranche on animal generation : Preexistence and the microscope.Andrew Pyle
Kant and evolution.Michael Ruse
Imagination and the problem of heredity in mechanist embryology.Justin E. H. Smith
Kant and the speculative sciences of origins.Catherine Wilson
Kant's early views on epigenesis : The role of maupertuis.John Zammito

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