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Theories on the nature of life

Title
Theories on the nature of life / Giovanni Blandino, introduction by A. Stefanelli. Contributions by L. von Bertalanffy, G. Colosi [and] J.J. Moore.
Author
Blandino, Giovanni.
Publication
New York, Philosophical Library [1969]

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Additional Authors
Stefanelli, Alberto
Description
xiii, 374 pages illustrations; 23 cm
Uniform Title
Problemi e dottrine di biologia teorica. English
Alternative Title
Problemi e dottrine di biologia teorica.
Subject
  • Biology > Philosophy
  • Evolution (Biology)
  • Biology
  • Philosophy
  • Biological Evolution
  • Biology
  • Philosophy
  • evolution
  • biology
  • philosophy
  • Biology > Philosophy
  • Theoretische Biologie
  • Biophilosophie
  • Biologie
Note
  • Translation of Problemi e dottrine di biologia teorica.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Biological theories : Introduction and order of exposition -- General lines of the history of biological thought since Democritus up to the nineteenth century -- Determinism and anti-casualism: I -- Determinism and anti-casualism: II. theories of evolution by oriented internal causes -- Mechanism: I -- Mechanism II: the darwinistic tendencies -- Vitalism -- Dialectal materialism -- Cybernetics -- Mnemonic conceptions -- Various hypotheses which admit in living bodies the existence of special physical realities or of exceptions to physical laws -- Emergentism -- Doctrines of wholeness: I -- Doctrines of wholeness: II -- Doctrines of wholeness: III -- Panbiological psychism and panpsychism -- Author’s opinion on the nature of life : Exposition of principal ideas -- Living things, evolution and abiogenesis -- Various scientific explanations -- Discordance between chance hypotheses and reality: I -- Discordance between chance hypotheses and reality: II -- The causes of evolution -- Appendices : Problems about chance hypotheses and evolution -- Problems of cybernetics.
LCCN
66024445
OCLC
  • ocm00218167
  • 218167
  • SCSB-300197
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library