Origins of Biogeography : The role of biological classification in early plant and animal geography / / by Malte Christian Ebach |
Autore | Ebach Malte Christian |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2015.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (185 p.) |
Disciplina | 578.09 |
Collana | History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences |
Soggetto topico |
Biology - Philosophy
Plants - Evolution Evolution (Biology) Philosophy of Biology Plant Evolution Evolutionary Theory |
ISBN | 94-017-9999-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Prologue -- Chapter 1. A History of Biogeography for the 21st century Biogeographer -- Chapter 2 Origins, Race & Distribution -- Chapter 3. Humboldt, Stromeyer and Candolle -- Chapter 4. Classification Divided -- Chapter 5. Plant and Animal Geography in Practise: Maps, Regions and Regionalisation -- Chapter 6. The Legacy of 19th Century Plant and Animal Geography -- Epilogue -- Biosketches -- Appendix. Translation of the Introduction to “Commentatio Inauguralis Sistens Historiae Vegetablium Geographiae Specimen” by Friedrich Stromeyer (1800)(Translation by Mark Garland). . |
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Ebach Malte Christian | ||
Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015 | ||
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Peirce and Biosemiotics : A Guess at the Riddle of Life / / edited by Vinicius Romanini, Eliseo Fernández |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2014.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (255 p.) |
Disciplina | 570.14 |
Collana | Biosemiotics |
Soggetto topico |
Life sciences
Biology - Philosophy Pragmatism Metaphysics Life Sciences Philosophy of Biology |
ISBN | 94-007-7732-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction; V. Romanini, E. Fernández -- 1. The Intelligible Universe; N. Houser -- 2. The Continuity of Life: On Peirce’s Objective Idealism; I.A. Ibri -- 3. Peircean Semiotic Indeterminacy and Its Relevance for Biosemiotics; R. Lane -- 4. Peircean Habits, Broken Symmetries, and Biosemiotics; E. Fernández -- 5. Semeiotic Causation and the Breath of Life; M. Hulswit, V. Romanini -- 6. The Ineffable, the Individual and the Intelligible: Peircean Reflections on the Innate Ingenuity of the Human Animal; V. Colapietro -- 7. Instinct and Abduction in the Peircean Informational Perspective: Contributions to Biosemiotics; L.F. Barbosa da Silveira, M.E. Quilici Gonzalez -- 8. The Life of Symbols and Other Legisigns: More than a mere Metaphor?; W. Nöth -- 9. Signs without Minds; J. Collier -- 10. Dicent Symbols and Proto-propositions in Biological Mimicry; J. Queiroz -- 11. Semeiosis as a Living Process; V. Romanini -- List of Authors. References. Index. |
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Personal Identity as a Principle of Biomedical Ethics / / by Michael Quante |
Autore | Quante Michael |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2017.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XV, 249 p.) |
Disciplina | 174.2 |
Collana | Philosophy and Medicine |
Soggetto topico |
Metaphysics
Ethics Medical ethics Biology—Philosophy Theory of Medicine/Bioethics Philosophy of Biology |
ISBN | 3-319-56869-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Human persistence -- Chapter 3: The beginning of life -- Chapter 4: Death -- Chapter 5: Personality and autonomy -- Chapter 6: Dying autonomously -- Chapter 7: Extended autonomy -- Chapter 8: Medical paternalism -- Chapter 9: The interlacing of persistence and personality. |
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Quante Michael | ||
Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017 | ||
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Philosophical Biology in Aristotle's Parts of Animals / / by Jason A. Tipton |
Autore | Tipton Jason A |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2014.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (213 p.) |
Disciplina | 149.91 |
Collana | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science |
Soggetto topico |
Philosophy
Biology—Philosophy History of Philosophy Philosophy of Biology |
ISBN | 3-319-01421-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- Chapter 1: Aristotle’s Philosophy and Biology: The biological phenomena.- Chapter 2: The Problem of Beginnings -- Chapter 3: Recognizing Sameness and Otherness in Animals -- Chapter 4: The Examination of the Animate in Light of the Inanimate: or, The Argument for the Autonomy of the Zoological Inquiry -- Chapter 5: Finding Fault with Nature -- Chapter 6: The Division and Combination of Labor -- Bibliography - Editions, Translations and Commentaries -- Index. |
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Tipton Jason A | ||
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The Philosophy of Biology : A Companion for Educators / / edited by Kostas Kampourakis |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2013.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (764 p.) |
Disciplina | 570.1 |
Collana | History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences |
Soggetto topico |
Biology - Philosophy
Science - Study and teaching Philosophy of Biology Science Education |
ISBN | 94-007-6537-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Foreword; Michael Ruse -- Philosophy of Biology and Biology Education: An Introduction; Kostas Kampourakis -- What is life?; Carol Cleland and Michael Zerella -- Biological Explanation; Angela Potochnik -- What would Natural Laws in the Life Sciences be?; Marc Lange -- The Nature of Evolutionary Biology: at the borderlands between Historical and Experimental Science; Massimo Pigliucci -- Evolutionary Theory and the Epistemology of Science; Kevin McCain & Brad Weslake -- Conceptual Change and the Rhetoric of Evolutionary Theory: ‘Force Talk’ as a case study and Challenge for Science Pedagogy; David Depew -- Debating the Power and Scope of Adaptation; Patrick Forber -- Biology and Religion: The Case for Evolution, Francisco Ayala -- The Implications of Evolutionary Biology for Religious Belief; Denis Alexander -- Intelligent Design and the Nature of Science: Philosophical and Pedagogical Points, Ingo Brigandt -- Molecular Evolution, Michael Dietrich -- Educational Lessons from Evolutionary Properties of the Sexual Genome; John Avise -- Non-genetic Inheritance and Evolution; Tobias Uller -- Homology, Alessandro Minelli & Giuseppe Fusco -- Teaching Evolutionary Developmental Biology: Concepts, Problems and Controversy; Alan Love -- Philosophical Issues in Ecology, James Justus -- Small Things, Big Consequences: Microbiological Perspectives on Biology; Michael J. Duncan, Pierrick Bourrat, Jennifer DeBerardinis, & Maureen O’ Malley -- Essentialism in Biology; John Wilkins -- Biological Teleology: the Need for History; James Lennox & Kostas Kampourakis -- Biology's Functional Perspective: Roles, Advantages and Organization; Arno Wouters -- Understanding Biological Mechanisms: Using Illustrations from Circadian Rhythm Research; William Bechtel -- Information in the Biological Sciences; Alfredo Marcos and Robert Arp -- Systems Biology and Education; Pierre Alain Braillard -- Putting Mendel in His Place: How Curriculum Reform in Genetics and Counterfactual History of Science Can Work Together; Annie Jamieson & Gregory Radick -- Against “Genes For”: Could an Inclusive Concept of Genetic Material Effectively Replace Gene Concepts?; Richard Burian & Kostas Kampourakis -- Current Thinking about Nature and Nurture, David Moore -- Genomics and Society: Why “Discovery” Matters; Lisa Gannett -- Philosophical Issues in Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Research; Andrew Siegel -- Ethics in Biomedical Research and Practice; Anya Plutynski -- Environmental Ethics; Roberta Millstein. |
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Philosophy of Cancer : A Dynamic and Relational View / / by Marta Bertolaso |
Autore | Bertolaso Marta |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2016.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (200 p.) |
Disciplina | 100 |
Collana | History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences |
Soggetto topico |
Biology - Philosophy
Cancer Cytology Medicine - Philosophy Philosophy of Biology Cancer Biology Cell Biology Philosophy of Medicine |
ISBN | 94-024-0865-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Cancer Biology -- 2. The Evolution of Explanatory Models of Cancer -- 3. The Systemic Approach to Cancer: Models and Epistemology -- 4. The Tissue Organization Field Theory and an Anti-Reductionist Campaign -- 5. Towards a Relational Ontology for Cancer -- 6. On Biological Explanations -- 7. Complementary Issues of a Relational View of Biological Determination. |
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Bertolaso Marta | ||
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Philosophy of Science : Between the Natural Sciences, the Social Sciences, and the Humanities / / edited by Alexander Christian, David Hommen, Nina Retzlaff, Gerhard Schurz |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2018.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XXI, 274 p. 17 illus., 4 illus. in color.) |
Disciplina | 300.1 |
Collana | European Studies in Philosophy of Science |
Soggetto topico |
Philosophy and social sciences
Philosophy of nature Biology—Philosophy Mathematics—Philosophy Philosophy of the Social Sciences Philosophy of Nature Philosophy of Biology Philosophy of Mathematics |
ISBN | 3-319-72577-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction (Alexander Christian, David Hommen, Nina Retzlaff and Gerhard Schurz) -- Part I: Philosophy of physics -- Chapter 1: Quantum Gravity: An Ideology of Unification? (Kian Salimkhani) -- Chapter 2: On Predictions and Explanations in Multiverse Scenarios (Keizo Matsubara) -- Chapter 3: The Role of the Concept of Causation in Physics (Enno Fischer) -- Chapter 4: Causality in General Relativity. “Partial Determination” Revisited (Andrea Reichenberger) -- Part II. Philosophy of life sciences -- Chapter 5: The Philosophical Concept of Agency between Systems Biology and Artificial Intelligence (Anne Sophie Meincke) -- Chapter 6. Functions, Malfunctioning, and Negative Causation (Ludger Jansen) -- Chapter 7. The Quantitative Problem for Theories of Function and Dysfunction (Thomas Schramme) -- Chapter 8. On the Explanatory Character of the Serial Endosymbiotic Theory of the Origin of Eukaryotic Cells (Javier Suárez and Roger Deulofeu) -- Part III. Philosophy of social sciences & values in science -- Chapter 9. Agnotological Challenges: How to Capture the Production of Ignorance (Martin Carrier) -- Chapter 10. The “Invisible Hand” as a Natural Law (Judith Würgler) -- Chapter 11. Micro Economics Between the Natural Sciences and the Humanities (Karsten Klint Jensen) -- Chapter 12. The Role of “Ought” in Value Theory: Philosophical and Sociological Perspectives (Elizaveta Kostrova) -- Chapter 13. From Stability to Validity: How Standards Serve Epistemic Ends (Lara Huber) -- Part IV. Philosophy of mathematics & formal modeling -- Chapter 14. A Theory of Constitutive Inference for the Regularity Account of Mechanistic Constitution (Jens Harbecke). Chapter 15. Recognition Procedures and Dag Prawitz’s Theory of Grounds (Antonio Piccolomini d’Aragona) -- Chapter 16. Exploratory Modes of Scientific Inquiry: From Experimentation to Modeling (Axel Gelfert). |
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Philosophy, History and Biology: Essays in Honour of Jean Gayon / / edited by Pierre-Olivier Méthot |
Autore | Méthot Pierre-Olivier |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2023.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2023 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (322 pages) |
Disciplina | 570.1 |
Collana | History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences |
Soggetto topico |
Biology - Philosophy
Science - History Science - Philosophy Philosophy of Biology History of Science Philosophy of Science |
Soggetto non controllato |
Biology
Science |
ISBN |
9783031281570
9783031281563 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction (P.-O. Méthot, F. Merlin, P. Huneman) -- Part I: Historical Epistemology and Philosophy of Biology -- Chapter 1. “From Historical Epistemology to Philosophy of Biology” (Pierre-Olivier Méthot) -- Chapter 2. “Jean Gayon and the Historical Perspective in Philosophy of Biology” (François Duchesneau) -- Chapter 3. “Taking Historical Epistemology to the International Scene” (Anastasios Brenner) -- Chapter 4. “Jean Gayon, History and Philosophy of Biology: A New Synthesis” (Thomas Pradeu) -- Chapter 5. "Title TBA" (Victor Petit) -- Part II: History of Evolutionary Theory and Genetics -- Chapter 6. “Jean Gayon and the History of French Genetics” (Richard Burian) -- Chapter 7. “Population Genetics and the Evolutionary Synthesis: Remarks on the Contribution of Jean Gayon” (David Depew) -- Chapter 8. “Local Traditions and the Death of Diffusion: Jean Gayon’s Contribution to Contemporary Narratives of ‘the Molecular Vision of Life’” (Edna Suarez) -- Chapter 9. “Jean Gayon on Alfred R. Wallace’s Contribution to Evolutionary Theory” (Jon Hodge) -- Part III: Case-studies in History and Philosophy of Biology -- Chapter 10. “Locating the Human in the Biological World: A Way into the Species Problem” (Phil Sloan). Chapter 11. “Lamarck: Philosopher of Nature” (Stéphane Tirard) -- Chapter 12. “A Critique of Jean Gayon’s Critiques of Cultural Evolution” (Jorge Martinez) -- Chapter 13. “Between Science and Ideology: The Case of Clemence Royer” (Gérard Chazal) -- Chapter 14. “Mill on Design and Natural Selection” (Denis Forest) -- Chapter 15. “Eighteenth-Century uses of Vitalism in constructing Biology” (Charles T. Wolfe) -- Part IV: Personal Reminiscences -- Chapter 16. “Practicing Evolutionary Biology with Jean Gayon” (Philippe Huneman) -- Chapter 17. “Historical Epistemology and Analytic Philosophy: The Path of a Singular Synthesis. Testimony of a Former Doctoral Student” (Élodie Giroux) -- Chapter 18. “Title TBA” (Staffan Müller-Wille) -- Chapter 19. “Jean Gayon: In Memoriam” (Hans-Jörg Rheinberger). |
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Méthot Pierre-Olivier | ||
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A Pluralist Theory of the Mind / / by David Ludwig |
Autore | Ludwig David |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2015.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (207 p.) |
Disciplina | 100 |
Collana | European Studies in Philosophy of Science |
Soggetto topico |
Philosophy and science
Philosophy of mind Metaphysics Biology—Philosophy Philosophy of Science Philosophy of Mind Philosophy of Biology |
ISBN | 3-319-22738-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Pluralism and Scientific Practice -- Beyond Placement Problems -- A Historical Diagnosis -- Part I In Defense of Conceptual Relativity -- Conceptual Relativity in Philosophy -- Conceptual Relativity in Science -- The Demarcation Problem of Conceptual Relativity -- Part II From Conceptual Relativity to Vertical Pluralism -- The Argument from Horizontal Pluralism -- The Argument from Ontological Non-Fundamentalism -- Part III Beyond the Mind-Body Problem -- Consciousness -- Beyond Dualism and Physicalism -- Mental Causation -- Epilogue: Metaphysics in a Complex World. |
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Ludwig David | ||
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Quanten – Evolution – Geist : Eine Abhandlung über Natur, Wissenschaft und Wirklichkeit / / von Dirk Eidemüller |
Autore | Eidemüller Dirk |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2017.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer Spektrum, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (485 p.) |
Disciplina | 530 |
Soggetto topico |
Physics
Philosophy of nature Biology—Philosophy Philosophy History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics Philosophy of Nature Philosophy of Biology Popular Science in Philosophy Popular Science in Physics |
ISBN | 3-662-49379-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | ger |
Nota di contenuto | I Die Philosophie der Quantenphysik -- 1 Die Prinzipien der klassischen Physik -- 2 Einführung in die Quantenmechanik -- 3 Die Kopenhagener Deutung -- 4 Die Paradoxa der Quantenphysik -- 5 Alternative Interpretationen der Quantenmechanik -- 6 Aspekte der relativistischen Quantenmechanik und Quantenfeldtheorien -- 7 Zusammenführung der Ergebnisse -- II Evolution und Erkenntnistheorie -- 8 Aufgabe und Charakter von Erkenntnistheorie -- 9 Die Evolutionäre Erkenntnistheorie -- 10 Das Weltbild der Evolutionären Erkenntnistheorie -- 11 Reduktionismusdebatte und Kritik an diesem Realitätsverständnis -- 12 Andere evolutionär motivierte Erkenntnistheorien -- 13 Diskussion der Evolutionären Erkenntnistheorie und Fazit -- III Der Mensch, sein Geist und die Natur -- 14 Der evolutionär-epistemologische Ansatz -- 15 Realität versus Wirklichkeit: Vom Dasein der Quanten -- 16 Ein naturalistisches und pluralistisches Weltbild -- 17 Das Materie-Körper-Bewusstsein-Problem -- 18 Das soziokulturelle Apriori -- 19 Wissenschaft und Wirklichkeit.-20 Die Einheit des Schönen und Wahren -- 21 Versuch über den Sinn im Leben. . |
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Eidemüller Dirk | ||
Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer Spektrum, , 2017 | ||
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