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The understanding of nature

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Reidel Pub. Co.
Language
English
Pages
374

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The understanding of nature: essays in the philosophy of biology
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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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Dordrecht, Boston
Series
Boston studies in the philosophy of science ;, v. 23, Synthese library ; v. 66

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Dewey Decimal Class
501 s, 574/.01
Library of Congress
Q174 .B67 vol. 23, QH331 .B67 vol. 23, B1-5802

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Pagination
xii, 374 p. :
Number of pages
374

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Open Library
OL5068363M
Internet Archive
understandingofn0000gren
ISBN 10
9027704627, 9027704635
LCCN
74076477
OCLC/WorldCat
1116101
Library Thing
519337

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