| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 456 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in philosophy and biology |
|
Cambridge studies in philosophy and biology.
|
| Contents |
The comparative study of animal development : from Aristotle to William Harvey's Aristotelianism / James G. Lennox -- Monsters, nature, and generation from the Renaissance to the early modern period : the emergence of medical thought / Annie Bitbol-Hespériès -- Descartes' experiments and the generation of animals / Vincent Aucante -- Imagination and the problem of heredity in mechanist embryology / Justin E.H. Smith -- The soul as vehicle for genetic information : Gassendi's account of inheritance / Saul Fisher -- Atoms and minds in Walter Charleton's theory of animal generation / Andreas Blank -- Animal generation and substance in Sennert and Leibniz / Richard T.W. Arthur -- Spontaneous and sexual generation in Conway's Principles / Deborah Boyle -- Malebranche on animal generation : preexistence and the microscope / Andrew Pyle -- Animal as category : Bayle's "Rorarius" / Dennis Des Chene -- Explanation and demonstration in the Haller-Wolff debate / Karen Detlefsen -- Soul power : Georg Ernst Stahl and the debate on generation / Francesco Paolo de Ceglia -- Charles Bonnet's neo-Leibnizian theory of organic bodies / François Duchesneau -- Kant's early views on epigenesis : the role of Maupertuis / John Zammito -- Blumenbach and Kant on mechanism and teleology in nature : the case of the formative drive / Brandon C. Look -- Kant and the speculative sciences or origins / Catherine Wilson -- Kant and evolution / Michael Ruse |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-445) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Reproduction.
|
|
Domestic animals -- Reproduction.
|
|
Animals (Philosophy)
|
|
Embryology.
|
|
Reproduction
|
|
MEDICAL -- Reproductive Medicine & Technology.
|
|
Animals (Philosophy)
|
|
Domestic animals -- Reproduction
|
|
Embryology
|
|
Reproduction
|
|
Tiere
|
|
Haustiere
|
|
Züchtung
|
|
Embryologie
|
|
Philosophie
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
Smith, Justin E. H.
|
| ISBN |
9780511221040 |
|
0511221045 |
|
9780511219054 |
|
0511219059 |
|
9780511498572 |
|
0511498578 |
|
