The understanding of nature : essays in the philosophy of biology / Marjorie Grene.

  • Grene, Marjorie, 1910-2009.
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[1974], ©1974
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Dordrecht ; Boston : Reidel Pub. Co., [1974], ©1974.

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xii, 374 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Contents

Causes.--Three aspects of perception.--Biology and the problem of levels of reality.--Reducibility.--Aristotle and modern biology.--Is genus to species as matter to form?--Two evolutionary theories.--Statistics and selection.--Biology and teleology.--Bohm's metaphysics and biology.--Darwin and philosophy.-- --Explanation and evolution.--On the nature of natural necessity.--On some distinctions between men and brutes.--The characters of living things. I: the biological philosophy of Adolf Portmann.--The characters of living things. II: The phenomenology of Erwin Straus.--The characters of living things. III: Helmuth Plessner's theory of organic models [sic].--People and other animals.

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Includes bibliographic references and index

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  • 9027704627
  • 9027704635