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Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Understanding Evolution in Darwin's "Origin" Maria Elice Brzezinski Prestes This book aims to encourage the reading of "On the Origin of Species" and to include it in the teaching of evolution. With a comprehensive overview of the development of Darwin's theory, the volume provides relevant aspects of Darwin's life and work in connection with... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2023-10-10 Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences PDF, ePub 137,14 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Functions: From Organisms to Artefacts Antoine C. Dussault , Jean Gayon , Armand De Ricqlès This book, originally published in French, examines the philosophical debates on functions over the last forty years and proposes new ways of analysis. Pervasive throughout the life sciences, the concept of function has the air of an epistemological scandal: ascribing a... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2023-07-25 Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences PDF, ePub 137,14 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Philosophy, History and Biology: Essays in Honour of Jean Gayon Pierre-Olivier Méthot This book builds on recent scholarship highlighted in the edited collections, Philosophie, histoire, biologie: mélanges offerts à Jean Gayon (Merlin & Huneman, 2018) and Knowledge of Life Today (Gayon & Petit 2018/2019). While honoring the... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2023-05-25 Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences PDF, ePub 126,59 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies From Evolutionary Biology to Economics and Back Collectif This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the major key concepts common to economics and evolutionary biology. Written by a group of philosophers of science, biologists and economists, it proposes analyses of the meaning of twenty-five concepts from the viewpoint... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2023-01-12 Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences PDF, ePub 105,49 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Vitalism and Its Legacy in Twentieth Century Life Sciences and Philosophy 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... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2023-01-02 Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences PDF, ePub Gratuit PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Causal Pluralism in the Life Sciences Kolja Ehrenstein This book takes a new approach to the debate on causal pluralism in the philosophy of biology by asking how useful pluralism is instead of debating its truth. The core thesis in this work is that many problems do not hinge on the question of whether or not we... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2022-03-28 Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences PDF, ePub 105,49 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Psychopathy Luca Malatesti , John Mcmillan , Predrag Šustar This book explains the ethical and conceptual tensions in the use of psychopathy in different countries, including America, Canada, the UK, Croatia, Australia, and New Zealand. It offers an extensive critical analysis of how psychopathy functions within institutional... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2021-12-14 Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences PDF, ePub 126,59 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Life and Evolution Lorenzo Baravalle , Luciana Zaterka This book offers to the international reader a collection of original articles of some of the most skillful historians and philosophers of biology currently working in Latin American universities. During the last decades, increasing attention has been paid in Latin... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2020-04-10 Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies From Assessing to Conserving Biodiversity Elena Casetta , Jorge Marques Da Silva , Davide Vecchi This open access book features essays written by philosophers, biologists, ecologists and conservation scientists facing the current biodiversity crisis. Despite increasing communication, accelerating policy and management responses, and notwithstanding improving... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2019-06-17 Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences PDF, ePub Gratuit PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Biological Robustness Marta Bertolaso , Silvia Caianiello , Emanuele Serrelli This volume reviews examples and notions of robustness at several levels of biological organization. It tackles many philosophical and conceptual issues and casts an outlook on the future challenges of robustness studies in the context of a practice-oriented philosophy... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2019-01-04 Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Academic Theories of Generation in the Renaissance Linda Deer Richardson This volume deals with philosophically grounded theories of animal generation as found in two different traditions: one, deriving primarily from Aristotelian natural philosophy and specifically from his Generation of Animals; and another, deriving from two related... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2018-01-17 Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences PDF 147,69 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Vital Forces, Teleology and Organization Andrea Gambarotto This book offers a comprehensive account of vitalism and the Romantic philosophy of nature. The author explores the rise of biology as a unified science in Germany by reconstructing the history of the notion of “vital force,” starting from the mid-eighteenth through the... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2017-10-03 Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences PDF, ePub 68,56 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Zionism and the Biology of Jews Raphael Falk This book offers a unique perspective on Zionism. The author, a geneticist by training, focuses on science, rather than history. He looks at the claims that Jews constitute a people with common biological roots. An argument that helps provide justification for the... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2017-07-18 Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Philosophy of Systems Biology Sara Green The emergence of systems biology raises many fascinating questions: What does it mean to take a systems approach to problems in biology? To what extent is the use of mathematical and computational modelling changing the life sciences? How does the availability of big... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2016-12-15 Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences PDF, ePub 116,04 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Philosophy of Cancer Marta Bertolaso Since the 1970s, the origin of cancer is being explored from the point of view of the Somatic Mutation Theory (SMT), focusing on genetic mutations and clonal expansion of somatic cells. As cancer research expanded in several directions, the dominant focus on cells... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2016-08-24 Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences PDF, ePub 105,49 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Naturalism in the Philosophy of Health Élodie Giroux In a series of papers published in the 1970s, Christopher Boorse proposed a naturalist theory of health, mainly based on a value-free concept of ‘biological function’, a concept of ‘reference class’ and the notion of ‘statistical normality’. His theory has profoundly... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2016-04-25 Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences ePub 94,94 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Sadness or Depression? Steeves Demazeux , Jerome C. Wakefield The World Health Organization states that depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide, and predicts that by 2030 the epidemic of depression raging across the world will be the single biggest contributor to the overall burden of disease of all health... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2015-12-21 Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences PDF, ePub 52,74 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Reductive Explanation in the Biological Sciences Marie I. Kaiser This book develops a philosophical account that reveals the major characteristics that make an explanation in the life sciences reductive and distinguish them from non-reductive explanations. Understanding what reductive explanations are enables one to assess the... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2015-12-16 Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Early Modern Medicine and Natural Philosophy Peter Distelzweig , Benjamin Goldberg , Evan R. Ragland This volume presents an innovative look at early modern medicine and natural philosophy as historically interrelated developments. The individual chapters chart this interrelation in a variety of contexts, from the Humanists who drew on Hippocrates, Galen, and Aristotle... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2015-12-11 Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Origins of Biogeography Malte Christian Ebach This book presents a revised history of early biogeography and investigates the split in taxonomic practice, between the classification of taxa and the classification of vegetation. It moves beyond the traditional belief that biogeography is born from a synthesis of... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2015-07-03 Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences PDF, ePub 52,74 € PDF ePub
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