An edition of The understanding of nature
(1974)
The understanding of nature
essays in the philosophy of biology
by Marjorie Glicksman Grene
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The understanding of nature: essays in the philosophy of biology
1974, Reidel Pub. Co.
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9027704627 9789027704627
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Table of 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 bibliographical references and index.
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