Book ID: CBB000741550

The Problem of Animal Generation in Early Modern Philosophy (2006)

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Smith, Justin E. H. (Editor)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 2006
Physical Details: xiii + 456 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Contents:


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Review Müller-Wille, Staffan (2007) Review of "The Problem of Animal Generation in Early Modern Philosophy". British Journal for the History of Science (p. 605). unapi

Review Sloan, Phillip R. (2007) Review of "The Problem of Animal Generation in Early Modern Philosophy". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. unapi

Review Cheung, Tobias (2007) Review of "The Problem of Animal Generation in Early Modern Philosophy". Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period (p. 242). unapi

Review Waller, John C. (2008) Review of "The Problem of Animal Generation in Early Modern Philosophy". Journal of the History of Biology (p. 575). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Wilson, Catherine (2006) Kant and the Speculative Sciences of Origins. In: The Problem of Animal Generation in Early Modern Philosophy (p. 375). unapi

Chapter Pyle, Andrew (2006) Malebranche on Animal Generation: Preexistence and the Microscope. In: The Problem of Animal Generation in Early Modern Philosophy (p. 194). unapi

Chapter Detlefsen, Karen (2006) Explanation and Demonstration in the Haller-Wolff Debate. In: The Problem of Animal Generation in Early Modern Philosophy (p. 235). unapi

Chapter Ceglia, Francesco Paolo de (2006) Soul Power: Georg Ernst Stahl and the Debate on Generation. In: The Problem of Animal Generation in Early Modern Philosophy (p. 262). unapi

Chapter Zammito, John (2006) Kant's Early Views on Epigenesis: The Role of Maupertuis. In: The Problem of Animal Generation in Early Modern Philosophy (p. 317). unapi

Chapter Bitbol-Hespériès, Annie (2006) Monsters, Nature, and Generation from the Renaissance to the Early Modern Period: The Emergence of Medical Thought. In: The Problem of Animal Generation in Early Modern Philosophy (p. 47). unapi

Chapter Aucante, Vincent (2006) Descartes's Experimental Method and the Generation of Animals. In: The Problem of Animal Generation in Early Modern Philosophy (p. 65). unapi

Chapter Fisher, Saul (2006) The Soul as Vehicle for Genetic Information: Gassendi's Account of Inheritance. In: The Problem of Animal Generation in Early Modern Philosophy (p. 103). unapi

Chapter Blank, Andreas (2006) Atoms and Minds in Walter Charleton's Theory of Animal Generation. In: The Problem of Animal Generation in Early Modern Philosophy (p. 124). unapi

Chapter Smith, Justin E. H. (2006) Introduction. In: The Problem of Animal Generation in Early Modern Philosophy (p. 1). unapi

Chapter Look, Brandon C. (2006) Blumenbach and Kant on Mechanism and Teleology in Nature: The Case of the Formative Drive. In: The Problem of Animal Generation in Early Modern Philosophy (p. 355). unapi

Chapter Ruse, Michael (2006) Kant and Evolution. In: The Problem of Animal Generation in Early Modern Philosophy (p. 402). unapi

Chapter Boyle, Deborah (2006) Spontaneous and Sexual Generation in Conway's Principles. In: The Problem of Animal Generation in Early Modern Philosophy (p. 175). unapi

Chapter Des Chene, Dennis (2006) Animal as Category: Bayle's “Rorarius”. In: The Problem of Animal Generation in Early Modern Philosophy (p. 215). unapi

Chapter Duchesneau, François (2006) Charles Bonnet's Neo-Leibnizian Theory of Organic Bodies. In: The Problem of Animal Generation in Early Modern Philosophy (p. 285). unapi

Chapter Lennox, James G. (2006) The Comparative Study of Animal Development: William Harvey's Aristotelianism. In: The Problem of Animal Generation in Early Modern Philosophy (p. 21). unapi

Chapter Smith, Justin E. H. (2006) Imagination and the Problem of Heredity in Mechanist Embryology. In: The Problem of Animal Generation in Early Modern Philosophy (p. 80). unapi

Chapter Arthur, Richard T. W. (2006) Animal Generation and Substance in Sennert and Leibniz. In: The Problem of Animal Generation in Early Modern Philosophy (p. 147). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Anstey, Peter R.
Aucante, Vincent
Cimino, Guido
De Ceglia, Francesco Paolo
Ehlers, Nadine
Ekholm, Karin Jori
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
HOPOS
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Perspectives on Science
Physis: Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza
Revue des Questions Scientifiques
Publishers
University of Chicago Press
Indiana University
Oxford University Press
Schwabe & Co. AG Verlag
Suhrkamp
University of Minnesota Press
Concepts
Biogenesis; origin of life; spontaneous generation
Development; growth; life; death
Biology
Embryology
Philosophy of science
Natural philosophy
People
Democritos of Abdera
Harvey, William
Aristotle
Ballard, J. G.
Boyle, Robert
Cavendish, Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
21st century
Ancient
19th century
20th century
Places
Greece
United States
England
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