Inbunden, Engelska, 2006
Diderot and the Metamorphosis of Species
Av Mary Gregory
Del i serien Studies in Philosophy
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In this study Dr. Gregory examines how Diderot borrowed from Lucretius, Buffon, Maupertuis, and probability theory, and combined ideas from these sources in an innovative fashion to hypothesize that species are mutable and that all life arose randomly from a single prototype.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum: 2006-10-23
- Mått: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
- Vikt: 590 g
- Format: Inbunden
- Språk: Engelska
- Serie: Studies in Philosophy
- Antal sidor: 232
- Förlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- ISBN: 9780415955515
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Mary Gregory is a scholar of the French Enlightenment. For the past ten years she has been researching Diderot’s views regarding the metamorphosis of species in four of his texts, namely, the Pensées philosophiques (1746), the Lettre sur les aveugles à l’usage de ceux qui voient (1749), the Pensées sur l’interprétation de la nature (1753), and the trilogy, the Entretien entre d’Alembert et Diderot (1769), the Rêve de d’Alembert (1769), and the Suite de l’Entretien (1769).
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