LEADER 03780nam 22005895 450 001 9910627281903321 005 20251009101648.0 010 $a9783031140174$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783031140167 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-14017-4 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7129794 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7129794 035 $a(CKB)25299533000041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-14017-4 035 $a(EXLCZ)9925299533000041 100 $a20221031d2022 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe End of Final Causes in Biology /$fby Lucas John Mix 205 $a1st ed. 2022. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (150 pages) 225 1 $aPalgrave pivot 311 08$aPrint version: Mix, Lucas John The End of Final Causes in Biology Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 9783031140167 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. An End to Ends? -- 2. What Makes Life Life-Like? The Dynamic Continuity of Living Things -- 3. Vegetable Souls in the Middle Ages -- 4. Mechanical Organisms in the Enlightenment -- 5. Who ?Acts? in Biology? Biological Agents from Souls to Genes -- 6. Genes: The New Biological Agent -- 7. Can Teleology Be Saved? Three Constraints on Bioteleology -- 8. Genes and Natural Selection Finalize Nature. 330 $aThis book provides a straightforward introduction to teleology in biology, the work it did and the work it can do. Informed by history and philosophy, it focuses on scientific concerns. Seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth century biologists proposed a menagerie of biological ?actors? to explain power without appealing to Aristotelian vegetable souls and final causes. Three constraints on teleology narrowed the field, selecting among the various actors as they mutated and recombined. Methodological naturalism, local adaptation, and blind chance each represent a significant philosophical advance in biology. Kant, Darwin, and the Modern Synthesis provided a new teleology, grounded in natural selection, an etiological recursion of form and function, and the details of carbon chemistry on Earth. They naturalized teleology, but they also finalized nature, shifting conceptions about the world and science. Understanding these links ? historical, philosophical, and theoretical ? sets the stage for new work moving forward. Dr. Lucas John Mix is the Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology and an associate in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard. He studies life concepts at the intersection of science, philosophy and theology and has worked with NASA Astrobiology programs for the last 25 years on understanding the meaning and extent of life. His previous books include Life in Space: Astrobiology for Everyone (2009) and Life Concepts from Aristotle to Darwin: On Vegetable Souls (2018). 410 0$aPalgrave pivot. 606 $aBiology$xPhilosophy 606 $aEvolution (Biology) 606 $aScience$xHistory 606 $aPhilosophy of Biology 606 $aEvolutionary Biology 606 $aHistory of Science 615 0$aBiology$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aEvolution (Biology) 615 0$aScience$xHistory. 615 14$aPhilosophy of Biology. 615 24$aEvolutionary Biology. 615 24$aHistory of Science. 676 $a574.09 676 $a570.1 700 $aMix$b Lucas John$0941748 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910627281903321 996 $aThe End of Final Causes in Biology$92978871 997 $aUNINA