End of Final Causes in Biology

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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Beskrivning

This book provides a straightforward introduction to teleology in biology, the work it did and the work it can do. 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-11-01
Mått:148 x 210 x 14 mm
Vikt:328 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:149
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783031140167

Utforska kategorier

Filosofi inom Filosofi och religion
Biovetenskap inom Naturvetenskap och teknik
Biologi inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Mer om författaren

Dr. Lucas John Mix is the Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology and an associate in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard. He studies life concepts at the intersection of science, philosophy and theology and has worked with NASA Astrobiology programs for the last 25 years on understanding the meaning and extent of life.His previous books include Life in Space: Astrobiology for Everyone (2009) and Life Concepts from Aristotle to Darwin: On Vegetable Souls (2018).

Innehållsförteckning

1. An End to Ends?.- 2. What Makes Life Life-Like? The Dynamic Continuity of Living Things.- 3. Vegetable Souls in the Middle Ages.- 4. Mechanical Organisms in the Enlightenment.- 5. Who “Acts” in Biology? Biological Agents from Souls to Genes.- 6. Genes: The New Biological Agent.- 7. Can Teleology Be Saved? Three Constraints on Bioteleology.- 8. Genes and Natural Selection Finalize Nature.