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The understanding of nature : essays in the philosophy of biology
- Title
- The understanding of nature : essays in the philosophy of biology / Marjorie Grene.
- Author
- Grene, Marjorie, 1910-2009.
- Publication
- Dordrecht ; Boston : Reidel Pub. Co., [1974], ©1974.
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| Text | Request in advance | Q175 .B656 v.23 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xii, 374 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 23
- Synthese library ; v. 66
- Uniform Title
- Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 23.
- Synthese library ; v. 66.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Collected Work.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Causes.--Three aspects of perception.--Biology and the problem of levels of reality.--Reducibility.--Aristotle and modern biology.--Is genus to species as matter to form?--Two evolutionary theories.--Statistics and selection.--Biology and teleology.--Bohm's metaphysics and biology.--Darwin and philosophy.-- --Explanation and evolution.--On the nature of natural necessity.--On some distinctions between men and brutes.--The characters of living things. I: the biological philosophy of Adolf Portmann.--The characters of living things. II: The phenomenology of Erwin Straus.--The characters of living things. III: Helmuth Plessner's theory of organic models [sic].--People and other animals.
- ISBN
- 9027704627
- 9027704635 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 74076477
- OCLC
- ocm01116101
- SCSB-5187454
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries