Chance in Evolution / / Grant Ramsey, Charles H. Pence |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , [2016] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (368 pages) |
Disciplina | 576.801 |
Soggetto topico |
Evolution (Biology) - Philosophy
Chance |
Soggetto non controllato |
Charles Darwin
chance contingency evolution genetic drift history of biology macroevolution mutation natural selection |
ISBN | 0-226-40191-X |
Classificazione | WH 2100 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Chance in Evolution from Darwin to Contemporary Biology -- 1. Contingency, Chance, and Randomness in Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Biology -- 2. Chance and Chances in Darwin's Early Theorizing and in Darwinian Theory Today -- 3. Chance in the Modern Synthesis -- 4. Is it Providential, by Chance? Christian Objections to the Role of Chance in Darwinian Evolution -- 5. Does Darwinian Evolution Mean We Are Here by Chance? -- 6. The Reference Class Problem in Evolutionary Biology: Distinguishing Selection from Drift -- 7. Weak Randomness at the Origin of Biological Variation: The Case of Genetic Mutations -- 8. Parallel Evolution: What Does It (Not) Tell Us and Why Is It (Still) Interesting? -- 9. Contingent Evolution: Not by Chance Alone -- 10. History's Windings in a Flask: Microbial Experiments into Evolutionary Contingency -- 11. Rolling the Dice Twice: Evolving Reconstructed Ancient Proteins in Extant Organisms -- 12. Wonderful Life Revisited: Chance and Contingency in the Ediacaran-Cambrian Radiation -- References -- Contributors -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910838253403321 |
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Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ : German Romanticism between Leibniz and Marx / / Leif Weatherby |
Autore | Weatherby Leif |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2016] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (471 p.) |
Disciplina | 193 |
Collana | Forms of Living |
Soggetto topico |
Metaphysics
Romanticism - Germany Philosophy, German |
Soggetto non controllato |
Goethe
Holderin Naturphilosophie Novalis Schelling history of biology idealism metaphysics organicism romanticism |
ISBN |
0-8232-6944-2
0-8232-6945-0 0-8232-6943-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction: Romantic Organology: Terminology and Metaphysics -- Introduction -- 1. Metaphysical Organs and the Emergence of Life: From Leibniz to Blumenbach -- 2. The Epigenesis of Reason: Force and Organ in Kant and Herder -- 3. The Organ of the Soul: Vitalist Metaphysics and the Literalization of the Organ -- Introduction -- 4. The Tragic Task: Dialectical Organs and the Metaphysics of Judgment (Hölderlin) -- 5. Electric and Ideal Organs: Schelling and the Program of Organology -- 6. Universal Organs: Novalis’s Romantic Organology -- 7. Between Myth and Science: Naturphilosophie and the Ends of Organology -- 8. Technologies of Nature: Goethe’s Hegelian Transformations -- 9. Instead of an Epilogue: Communist Organs, or Technology and Organology -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers, series editors |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910798421303321 |
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New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2016] | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ : German Romanticism between Leibniz and Marx / / Leif Weatherby |
Autore | Weatherby Leif |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2016] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (471 p.) |
Disciplina | 193 |
Collana | Forms of Living |
Soggetto topico |
Metaphysics
Romanticism - Germany Philosophy, German |
Soggetto non controllato |
Goethe
Holderin Naturphilosophie Novalis Schelling history of biology idealism metaphysics organicism romanticism |
ISBN |
0-8232-6944-2
0-8232-6945-0 0-8232-6943-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction: Romantic Organology: Terminology and Metaphysics -- Introduction -- 1. Metaphysical Organs and the Emergence of Life: From Leibniz to Blumenbach -- 2. The Epigenesis of Reason: Force and Organ in Kant and Herder -- 3. The Organ of the Soul: Vitalist Metaphysics and the Literalization of the Organ -- Introduction -- 4. The Tragic Task: Dialectical Organs and the Metaphysics of Judgment (Hölderlin) -- 5. Electric and Ideal Organs: Schelling and the Program of Organology -- 6. Universal Organs: Novalis’s Romantic Organology -- 7. Between Myth and Science: Naturphilosophie and the Ends of Organology -- 8. Technologies of Nature: Goethe’s Hegelian Transformations -- 9. Instead of an Epilogue: Communist Organs, or Technology and Organology -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers, series editors |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910821405103321 |
Weatherby Leif
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New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2016] | ||
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