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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781456803321

Titolo

Transitions and borders between animals, humans, and machines, 1600-1800 [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Tobias Cheung

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2010

ISBN

1-283-16097-8

9786613160973

90-04-19418-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (206 p.)

Collana

Brill eBook titles 2011

Altri autori (Persone)

CheungTobias

Disciplina

128.09

Soggetti

Philosophical anthropology - History

Mechanism (Philosophy) - History

Animals (Philosophy) - History

Philosophy, Modern

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Originally published as volume XV, nos. 1-2 (2010) of Brill's journal, Early science and medicine"--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / T. Cheung -- Transitions And Borders Between Animals, Humans And Machines,1600-1800: Introduction / Tobias Cheung -- Animals, Humans, Machines And Thinking Matter, 1690-1707 / Ann Thomson -- Endowed Molecules And Emergent Organization: The Maupertuis-Diderot Debate / Charles T. Wolfe -- Omnis Fibra Ex Fibra: Fibre Economies In Bonnet’s And Diderot’s Models Of Organic Order / Tobias Cheung -- Transhumane Physiologie. Bilder und Praktiken des Reflexes (Thomas Willis, Robert Whytt, Marshall Hall) / Yvonne Wübben -- Machina Machinarum. Die Uhr Als Begriff Und Metapher Zwischen1450 Und 1750 / Hanns-Peter Neumann -- Index / T. Cheung.

Sommario/riassunto

The search for a new foundation of the order of things, that characterizes the period between Descartes and Kant, is closely related to three questions: What is an animal? What is a human? What is a machine? The various answers that have been given to the questions occur in a field of dynamic interactions between theories of knowledge and of matter, experiments, observations, moral, theological and



scientific claims, analogies, metaphors, imitations, and specific objects or artifacts. The main objective of this book is to retrace these interactions within different disciplinary, methodological and conceptual perspectives that reach from soul-body debates to models of organic molecules, fibre bodies and self-regulating clocks. Contributors are Tobias Cheung, Charles T. Wolfe, Ann Thomson, Hanns-Peter Neumann and Yvonne Wübben. Originally published as Volume XV, Nos. 1-2 (2010) of Brill's journal Early Science and Medicine .