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The End of Final Causes in Biology
Engelsk Hardback
The End of Final Causes in Biology
Engelsk Hardback

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This book provides a straightforward introduction to teleology in biology, the work it did and the work it can do. Informed by history and philosophy, it focuses on scientific concerns. Seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth century biologists proposed a menagerie of biological "actors" to explain power without appealing to Aristotelian vegetable souls and final causes. Three constraints on teleology narrowed the field, selecting among the various actors as they mutated and recombined. Methodological naturalism, local adaptation, and blind chance each represent a significant philosophical advance in biology. Kant, Darwin, and the Modern Synthesis provided a new teleology, grounded in natural selection, an etiological recursion of form and function, and the details of carbon chemistry on Earth. They naturalized teleology, but they also finalized nature, shifting conceptions about the world and science. Understanding these links - historical, philosophical, and theoretical - sets the stage for new work moving forward.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
149
ISBN-13:
9783031140167
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
3031140168
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
1 nov 2022
Længde:
0mm
Bredde:
148mm
Højde:
210mm
Forlag:
Springer International Publishing AG
Oplagsdato:
1 nov 2022
Forfatter(e):
Kategori sammenhænge