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Health, Ability and Well-Being
Conceptual and Practical Issues
Av Élodie Boissard, Élodie Giroux
Inbunden, 2027
1476 kr
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This book assesses the conceptual and practical contributions of the normativist and well-being approaches to health. A particular emphasis is placed on the holistic theory of Lennart Nordenfelt. The contributions of this theory are synthesized and discussed, and their relevance is put to the test, …
Biological Robustness
Emerging Perspectives from within the Life Sciences
Av Marta Bertolaso, Silvia Caianiello m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1095 kr
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This volume reviews examples and notions of robustness at several levels of biological organization. It tackles many philosophical and conceptual issues and casts an outlook on the future challenges of robustness studies in the context of a practice-oriented philosophy of science. The focus of …
From Assessing to Conserving Biodiversity
Conceptual and Practical Challenges
Av Elena Casetta, Jorge Marques da Silva m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
551 kr
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This open access book features essays written by philosophers, biologists, ecologists and conservation scientists facing the current biodiversity crisis. Despite increasing communication, accelerating policy and management responses, and notwithstanding improving ecosystem assessment and endangered …
Life and Evolution
Latin American Essays on the History and Philosophy of Biology
Av Lorenzo Baravalle, Luciana Zaterka
Inbunden, 2020
1098 kr
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This book offers to the international reader a collection of original articles of some of the most skillful historians and philosophers of biology currently working in Latin American universities. During the last decades, increasing attention has been paid in Latin America to the history and …
Life and Evolution
Latin American Essays on the History and Philosophy of Biology
Av Lorenzo Baravalle, Luciana Zaterka
Häftad, 2021
1098 kr
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This book offers to the international reader a collection of original articles of some of the most skillful historians and philosophers of biology currently working in Latin American universities. During the last decades, increasing attention has been paid in Latin America to the history and …
Psychopathy
Its Uses, Validity and Status
Av Luca Malatesti, John McMillan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1425 kr
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This book explains the ethical and conceptual tensions in the use of psychopathy in different countries, including America, Canada, the UK, Croatia, Australia, and New Zealand. It offers an extensive critical analysis of how psychopathy functions within institutional and social contexts. Inside, …
Psychopathy
Its Uses, Validity and Status
Av Luca Malatesti, John McMillan m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
1425 kr
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This book explains the ethical and conceptual tensions in the use of psychopathy in different countries, including America, Canada, the UK, Croatia, Australia, and New Zealand. It offers an extensive critical analysis of how psychopathy functions within institutional and social contexts. Inside, …
Causal Pluralism in the Life Sciences
A Journey Along the Frontiers of Conceptual Plurality
Inbunden, 2022
1207 kr
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This book takes a new approach to the debate on causal pluralism in the philosophy of biology by asking how useful pluralism is instead of debating its truth. The core thesis in this work is that many problems do not hinge on the question of whether or not we subscribe to causal pluralism. As one …
Causal Pluralism in the Life Sciences
A Journey Along the Frontiers of Conceptual Plurality
Häftad, 2023
1207 kr
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This book takes a new approach to the debate on causal pluralism in the philosophy of biology by asking how useful pluralism is instead of debating its truth. The core thesis in this work is that many problems do not hinge on the question of whether or not we subscribe to causal pluralism. As one …
From Evolutionary Biology to Economics and Back
Parallels and Crossings between Economics and Evolution
Av Jean-Baptiste André, Mikael Cozic m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
1207 kr
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This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the major key concepts common to economics and evolutionary biology. Written by a group of philosophers of science, biologists and economists, it proposes analyses of the meaning of twenty-five concepts from the viewpoint respectively of economics and …
From Evolutionary Biology to Economics and Back
Parallels and Crossings between Economics and Evolution
Av Jean-Baptiste André, Mikael Cozic m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
1207 kr
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This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the major key concepts common to economics and evolutionary biology. Written by a group of philosophers of science, biologists and economists, it proposes analyses of the meaning of twenty-five concepts from the viewpoint respectively of economics and …
Vitalism and Its Legacy in Twentieth Century Life Sciences and Philosophy
Av Christopher Donohue, Charles T. Wolfe
Inbunden, 2023
552 kr
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This Open Access book combines philosophical and historical analysis of various forms of alternatives to mechanism and mechanistic explanation, focusing on the 19th century to the present. It addresses vitalism, organicism and responses to materialism and its relevance to current biological …
Vitalism and Its Legacy in Twentieth Century Life Sciences and Philosophy
Av Christopher Donohue, Charles T. Wolfe
Häftad, 2023
443 kr
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This Open Access book combines philosophical and historical analysis of various forms of alternatives to mechanism and mechanistic explanation, focusing on the 19th century to the present. It addresses vitalism, organicism and responses to materialism and its relevance to current biological …
Canguilhem and Continental Philosophy of Biology
Av Giuseppe Bianco, Charles T. Wolfe m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
1316 kr
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This edited volume presents papers on this alternative philosophy of biology that could be called “continental philosophy of biology,” and the variety of positions and solutions that it has spawned. In doing so, it contributes to debates in the history and philosophy of science and the history of …
Canguilhem and Continental Philosophy of Biology
Av Giuseppe Bianco, Charles T. Wolfe m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
1316 kr
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This edited volume presents papers on this alternative philosophy of biology that could be called “continental philosophy of biology,” and the variety of positions and solutions that it has spawned. In doing so, it contributes to debates in the history and philosophy of science and the history of …
Philosophy, History and Biology: Essays in Honour of Jean Gayon
Inbunden, 2023
1425 kr
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This book builds on recent scholarship highlighted in the edited collections, Philosophie, histoire, biologie: mélanges offerts à Jean Gayon (Merlin & Huneman, 2018) and Knowledge of Life Today (Gayon & Petit 2018/2019). While honoring the career and the thought of Jean Gayon (1949-2018), this book …
Philosophy, History and Biology: Essays in Honour of Jean Gayon
Häftad, 2024
1425 kr
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This book builds on recent scholarship highlighted in the edited collections, Philosophie, histoire, biologie: mélanges offerts à Jean Gayon (Merlin & Huneman, 2018) and Knowledge of Life Today (Gayon & Petit 2018/2019). While honoring the career and the thought of Jean Gayon (1949-2018), this book …
Functions: From Organisms to Artefacts
Av Jean Gayon, Armand de Ricqlès m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
1534 kr
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This book, originally published in French, examines the philosophical debates on functions over the last forty years and proposes new ways of analysis. Pervasive throughout the life sciences, the concept of function has the air of an epistemological scandal: ascribing a function to a biological …
Functions: From Organisms to Artefacts
Av Jean Gayon, Armand de Ricqlès m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
1534 kr
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This book, originally published in French, examines the philosophical debates on functions over the last forty years and proposes new ways of analysis. Pervasive throughout the life sciences, the concept of function has the air of an epistemological scandal: ascribing a function to a biological …
Organization in Biology
Inbunden, 2023
552 kr
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This open access book assesses the prospects of (re)adopting organization as a pivotal concept in biology. It shows how organization can nourish biological thinking and practice, by reconnecting with the idea of biology as the science of organized systems. The book provides a comprehensive …
Organization in Biology
Häftad, 2023
443 kr
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This open access book assesses the prospects of (re)adopting organization as a pivotal concept in biology. It shows how organization can nourish biological thinking and practice, by reconnecting with the idea of biology as the science of organized systems. The book provides a comprehensive …
Understanding Evolution in Darwin's "Origin"
The Emerging Context of Evolutionary Thinking
Av Maria Elice Brzezinski Prestes
Inbunden, 2023
1534 kr
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This book aims to encourage the reading of "On the Origin of Species" and to include it in the teaching of evolution. With a comprehensive overview of the development of Darwin's theory, the volume provides relevant aspects of Darwin's life and work in connection with the broader context of his …
Understanding Evolution in Darwin's "Origin"
The Emerging Context of Evolutionary Thinking
Av Maria Elice Brzezinski Prestes
Häftad, 2025
1534 kr
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This book aims to encourage the reading of "On the Origin of Species" and to include it in the teaching of evolution. With a comprehensive overview of the development of Darwin's theory, the volume provides relevant aspects of Darwin's life and work in connection with the broader context of his …
New Mechanism
Explanation, Emergence and Reduction
Av João L. Cordovil, Gil Santos m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
552 kr
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This open access book addresses the epistemological and ontological significance as well as the scope of new mechanism. In particular, this book addresses the issues of what is "new" about new mechanism, the epistemological and ontological reasons underlying the adoption of mechanistic instead of …
New Mechanism
Explanation, Emergence and Reduction
Av João L. Cordovil, Gil Santos m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
443 kr
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This open access book addresses the epistemological and ontological significance as well as the scope of new mechanism. In particular, this book addresses the issues of what is "new" about new mechanism, the epistemological and ontological reasons underlying the adoption of mechanistic instead of …
Lamarckism and the Emergence of 'Scientific' Social Sciences in Nineteenth-Century Britain and France
Inbunden, 2024
1313 kr
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The book presents an original synthesizing framework on the relations between ‘the biological’ and ‘the social’. Within these relations, the late nineteenth-century emergence of social sciences aspiring to be constituted as autonomous, as 'scientific' disciplines, is described, analyzed and …
Lamarckism and the Emergence of 'Scientific' Social Sciences in Nineteenth-Century Britain and France
Häftad, 2025
1313 kr
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The book presents an original synthesizing framework on the relations between ‘the biological’ and ‘the social’. Within these relations, the late nineteenth-century emergence of social sciences aspiring to be constituted as autonomous, as 'scientific' disciplines, is described, analyzed and …
On the Riddle of Life
A Historico-Logical Study of Vitalism
Av Bohang Chen
Inbunden, 2024
1316 kr
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This book presents a historico-logical study of vitalism. It begins by uncovering previously unknown doctrines of vitalism from the history of science—encompassing biological, physical, and social sciences—and then subjects these doctrines to a thorough logical analysis. Through this process, the …
On the Riddle of Life
A Historico-Logical Study of Vitalism
Av Bohang Chen
Häftad, 2025
1316 kr
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This book presents a historico-logical study of vitalism. It begins by uncovering previously unknown doctrines of vitalism from the history of science—encompassing biological, physical, and social sciences—and then subjects these doctrines to a thorough logical analysis. Through this process, the …
Functional Integration
A Theoretical Enquiry into the Biological Unit of the Individual
Inbunden, 2025
1207 kr
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This book explores the main biological dimensions underlying functional integration and examines how they contribute to defining a biological individual as both a physiological and evolutionary unit. Functional integration lies at the heart of most definitions of both organisms and biological …
