Vitalism and Its Legacy in Twentieth Century Life Sciences and Philosophy

• Paperback | Engels | History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences | nr. 29
• This Open Access book combines philosophical and historical analysis of various forms of alternatives to mechanism and mechanistic explanation, focusi... Lees meer

Psychopathy

• Hardcover | Engels | History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences | nr. 27
• This book explains the ethical and conceptual tensions in the use of psychopathy in different countries, including America, Canada, the UK, Croatia, A... Lees meer

Philosophy of Systems Biology

• Hardcover | Engels | History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences | nr. 20
• The emergence of systems biology raises many fascinating questions: What does it mean to take a systems approach to problems in biology? To what exten... Lees meer

From Evolutionary Biology to Economics and Back

Jean-Baptiste André, Mikael Cozic, Silvia de Monte, Jean Gayon, Philippe Huneman, Johannes Martens, Bernard Walliser

• Hardcover | Engels | History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences | nr. 28
• This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the major key concepts common to economics and evolutionary biology. Written by a group of philosopher... Lees meer

Vitalism and Its Legacy in Twentieth Century Life Sciences and Philosophy

• Hardcover | Engels | History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences | nr. 29
• This Open Access book combines philosophical and historical analysis of various forms of alternatives to mechanism and mechanistic explanation, focusi... Lees meer

Naturalism in the Philosophy of Health

• Paperback | Engels | History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences | nr. 17
• 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 'biol... Lees meer

Philosophy, History and Biology: Essays in Honour of Jean Gayon

• Hardcover | Engels | History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences | nr. 30
• This book builds on recent scholarship highlighted in the edited collections, Philosophie, histoire, biologie: mélanges offerts à Jean Gayon (Merlin &... Lees meer

Lamarckism and the Emergence of 'Scientific' Social Sciences in Nineteenth-Century Britain and France

Snait B Gissis

• Hardcover | Engels | History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences | nr. 36
• The book presents an original synthesizing framework on the relations between 'the biological' and 'the social'. Within these relations, the late nine... Lees meer

Philosophy of Systems Biology

• Paperback | Engels | History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences | nr. 20
• The emergence of systems biology raises many fascinating questions: What does it mean to take a systems approach to problems in biology? To what exten... Lees meer

Psychopathy

• Paperback | Engels | History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences | nr. 27
• This book explains the ethical and conceptual tensions in the use of psychopathy in different countries, including America, Canada, the UK, Croatia, A... Lees meer

Causal Pluralism in the Life Sciences

Kolja Ehrenstein

• Paperback | Engels | History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences | nr. 25
• 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 it... Lees meer

Vital Forces, Teleology and Organization

Andrea Gambarotto

• Paperback | Engels | History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences | nr. 21
• Presents broad textual evidence for the development of theories relating to living forms in classical German philosophy Proposes that the Biologie is ... Lees meer

New Mechanism

• Paperback | Engels | History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences | nr. 35
• This open access book addresses the epistemological and ontological significance as well as the scope of new mechanism. In particular, this book addre... Lees meer

Functions: From Organisms to Artefacts

• Hardcover | Engels | History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences | nr. 32
• This book, originally published in French, examines the philosophical debates on functions over the last forty years and proposes new ways of analysis... Lees meer

Canguilhem and Continental Philosophy of Biology

• Hardcover | Engels | History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences | nr. 31
• This edited volume presents papers on this alternative philosophy of biology that could be called "continental philosophy of biology," and the variety... Lees meer

Academic Theories of Generation in the Renaissance

Linda Deer Richardson

• Hardcover | Engels | History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences | nr. 22
• Fills a gap in the literature focused on the Renaissance Combines the traditions of medicine and philosophy in its investigations Makes available uniq... Lees meer

Academic Theories of Generation in the Renaissance

Linda Deer Richardson

• Paperback | Engels | History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences | nr. 22
• Fills a gap in the literature focused on the Renaissance Combines the traditions of medicine and philosophy in its investigations Makes available uniq... Lees meer

Naturalism in the Philosophy of Health

• Hardcover | Engels | History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences | nr. 17
• 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 'biol... Lees meer

On the Origin of Autonomy

Bernd Rosslenbroich

• Paperback | Engels | History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences | nr. 5
• This volume describes features of autonomy and integrates them into the recent discussion of factors in evolution. In recent years ideas about major t... Lees meer

Zionism and the Biology of Jews

Raphael Falk

• Hardcover | Engels | History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences | nr. 19
• Both issues unfolded against the background of a romantic national culture of Western Europe in the 19th century: Jews, primarily from Eastern Europe,... Lees meer

Understanding Evolution in Darwin's Origin

• Hardcover | Engels | History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences | nr. 34
• 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... Lees meer

Reductive Explanation in the Biological Sciences

Marie I Kaiser

• Hardcover | Engels | History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences | nr. 16
• This book develops a philosophical account that reveals the major characteristics that make an explanation in the life sciences reductive and distingu... Lees meer

Organization in Biology

• Paperback | Engels | History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences | nr. 33
• This open access book assesses the prospects of (re)adopting organization as a pivotal concept in biology. It shows how organization can nourish biolo... Lees meer

Life and Evolution

• Paperback | Engels | History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences | nr. 26
• This book offers to the international reader a collection of original articles of some of the most skillful historians and philosophers of biology cur... Lees meer