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La philosophie de la biologie avant la biologie: Une histoire du vitalisme (2019)

Wolfe, Charles T. (Author)

Classiques Garnier
Publication date: 2019
Language: French

ISBN: 9782406080725

Publication Date: 2019
Physical Details: 514

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Philosophy of biology Materialism Vitalism Biology 18th century 17th century

"Ce travail émane d'un double constat initial : d'une part, que le matérialisme "classique" des XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles fut moins un prolongement d'une approche mécaniste désincarnée, qu'une reconnaissance de la nature même du corps vivant, et d'autre part, que les doctrines vitalistes de cette même période, notamment au sein de l'École de Montpellier, ne ressemblent (quasiment) en rien à une métaphysique des forces vitales extra-naturelles qu'on a pu imaginer par la suite. Tant le matérialisme que le vitalisme cherchent à saisir les déplacements scientifiques postérieurs à la Révolution Scientifique, qui aboutissent - sans parcours linéaire ou nécessité historique particulière - à l'apparition d'une science nommée "biologie" à la fin du XVIIIe siècle. L'analyse se poursuit autour de la "biophilosophie" au XXe siècle."--Page 4 of cover This work presents the materialism of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as the opposite of a metaphysics of vital forces imagined later. Both materialism and vitalism seek to capture the scientific shifts that followed the scientific revolution, culminating in "biology" at the end of the eighteenth century.

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Review Francesco Paolo de Ceglia (2021) Review of "La philosophie de la biologie avant la biologie: Une histoire du vitalisme". Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza (pp. 493-496). unapi

Review Boris Demarest (2019) Review of "La philosophie de la biologie avant la biologie: Une histoire du vitalisme". History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences (p. 38). unapi

Review Snait Gissis (2019) Review of "La philosophie de la biologie avant la biologie: Une histoire du vitalisme". British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 719-721). unapi

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