Bognon-Küss, Cécilia (Editor)
Wolfe, Charles T. (Editor)
Routledge
Physical Details: 220
Language: English
The use of the term "biology" to refer to a unified science of life emerged around 1800 (most prominently by scientists such as Lamarck and Treviranus, although scholarship has indicated its usage at least 30-40 years earlier). The interplay between philosophy and natural science has also accompanied the constitution of biology as a science. Philosophy of Biology Before Biology examines biological and protobiological writings from the mid-eighteenth century to the early nineteenth century (from Buffon to Cuvier; Kant to Oken; and Kielmeyer) with two major sets of questions in mind: What were the distinctive conceptual features of the move toward biology as a science? What were the relations and differences between the "philosophical" focus on the nature of living entities, and the "scientific" focus? This insightful volume produces a fresh but also systematic perspective both on the history of biology as a science and on the early versions of, in the 1960s in a post-positivist context, the philosophy of biology. It will appeal to students and researchers interested in fields such as history of science, philosophy of science and biology.
...MoreReview Dominik Hünniger (2020) Review of "Philosophy of Biology Before Biology". Archives of Natural History (pp. 413-414).
Similar Citations
Article
Caponi, Gustavo;
(2012)
Kant: entre Buffon y Cuvier
(/isis/citation/CBB001212024/)
Book
Bach, Thomas;
(2001)
Biologie und Philosophie bei C. F. Kielmeyer und F. W. J. Schelling
(/isis/citation/CBB000501371/)
Article
Zammito, John H.;
(2012)
The Lenoir Thesis Revisited: Blumenbach and Kant
(/isis/citation/CBB001221595/)
Book
Grimoult, Cédric;
(2002)
Sur les traces des grands évolutionnistes
(/isis/citation/CBB000600518/)
Article
Caponi, Gustavo;
(2011)
Los taxones como tipos: Buffon, Cuvier y Lamarck
(/isis/citation/CBB001420506/)
Article
Joan Steigerwald;
(2016)
Entanglements of instruments and media in investigating organic life
(/isis/citation/CBB126105384/)
Book
Schmitt, Stéphane;
(2006)
Les forces vitales et leur distribution dans la nature: un essai de “systématique physiologique”
(/isis/citation/CBB000950585/)
Book
Mensch, Jennifer;
(2013)
Kant's Organicism: Epigenesis and the Development of Critical Philosophy
(/isis/citation/CBB001213143/)
Book
Hein van den Berg;
(2013)
Kant on Proper Science: Biology in the Critical Philosophy and the Opus postumum
(/isis/citation/CBB673387437/)
Article
Gambarotto, Andrea;
(2014)
Vital Forces and Organization: Philosophy of Nature and Biology in Karl Friedrich Kielmeyer
(/isis/citation/CBB001421577/)
Article
Hein van den Berg;
Boris Demarest;
(2020)
Axiomatic Natural Philosophy and the Emergence of Biology as a Science
(/isis/citation/CBB494259393/)
Article
Phillip R. Sloan;
(2019)
Life Science and Naturphilosophie: Rethinking the relationship
(/isis/citation/CBB858801182/)
Book
Pierre-Olivier Méthot;
(2023)
Philosophy, History and Biology: Essays in Honour of Jean Gayon
(/isis/citation/CBB066863207/)
Article
Wim Beekman;
Henk Jochemsen;
(2022)
The Kantian account of mechanical explanation of natural ends in eighteenth and nineteenth century biology
(/isis/citation/CBB072647203/)
Book
THEODORE W. PIETSCH;
(2015)
Cuvier’s History of the Natural Sciences: Nineteen Lessons from the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
(/isis/citation/CBB990098370/)
Article
Isabel Gabel;
(2018)
La biologie, la réflexivité et l’histoire: Réinscrire Canguilhem dans son milieu
(/isis/citation/CBB085805175/)
Chapter
Bruno Belhoste;
(2017)
From Quarry to Paper: Cuvier's Three Epistemological Cultures
(/isis/citation/CBB588948570/)
Article
Stemerding, Dirk;
(1993)
How to make oneself nature's spokesman? A Latourian account of classification in 18th- and early 19th-century natural history
(/isis/citation/CBB000047377/)
Book
(1994)
Philosophie des Organischen in der Goethezeit: Studien zu Werk und Wirkung des Naturforschers Carl Friedrich Kielmeyer (1765-1844)
(/isis/citation/CBB000030262/)
Book
Michela Massimi;
Angela Breitenbach;
(2017)
Kant and the Laws of Nature
(/isis/citation/CBB352248455/)
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Revue d'Histoire des Sciences
Journal of the History of Biology
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Be the first to comment!