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Vitalism and the Scientific Image in Post-Enlightenment Life Science, 1800-2010, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2013
History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences Series, Vol. 2
Coordinators: Normandin Sebastian, Wolfe Charles T.
Language: EnglishSubjects for Vitalism and the Scientific Image in Post-Enlightenment...:
Keywords
Emergent Evolution; Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire; Homeostasis and vitalist roots of adaptation; Jean-Baptiste Lamarck; Lamarck; Life and the Mind in Nineteenth-Century Britain; Life as an Emergent Phenomenon; Rethinking Organic Vitality in Germany; The Origins of Canguilhem’s Vitalism; Vitalism and the Organismic Approach; Vitalism versus Emergent Materialism; Vitalists’ Objections to Mechanistic Science; Wilhelm Reich; holism; lineage and metabolism; mechanism; reductionism; teleology; vitalism; vitalist themes
Publication date: 07-2015
Support: Print on demand
Publication date: 06-2013
377 p. · 15.5x23.5 cm · Hardback
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Vitalism is understood as impacting the history of the life sciences, medicine and philosophy, representing an epistemological challenge to the dominance of mechanism over the last 200 years, and partly revived with organicism in early theoretical biology. The contributions in this volume portray the history of vitalism from the end of the Enlightenment to the modern day, suggesting some reassessment of what it means both historically and conceptually. As such it includes a wide range of material, employing both historical and philosophical methodologies, and it is divided fairly evenly between 19th and 20th century historical treatments and more contemporary analysis. This volume presents a significant contribution to the current literature in the history and philosophy of science and the history of medicine.
First comprehensive overview of Vitalism: an idea with ever increasing relevance to modern biological theory
Comprehensive overview of multi- and trans- disciplinary approaches
Combination of historical and contemporary analysis