Download or read book Philosophie de la biologie written by Christian Sachse and published by EPFL Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cet ouvrage proposé un panorama complet des débats contemporains en philosophie de la biologie. Il consacre une large place à la représentation des principes fondateurs de la théorie de l'évolution et des principaux concepts et lois génétiques, ainsi qu'à l'examen des questions posées par la sélection naturelle comme par la notion de fitness et l'unité de sélection. L'auteur discute en ces pages la définition du vivant et la potion de fonction biologique, et développe notamment une conception causale et mécaniste des processus biologiques dans une perspective réductionniste originale. Clair et didactique, cet ouvrage résume systématiquement l'état actuel des connaissances, présente les différents concepts et positions, propose une évaluation des résultats et montre que les questions ouvertes dépasse largement le seul cadre de la biologie. Il vise ainsi à contribuer au développement d'une philosophie de la biologie nouvelle, en lien étroit avec la philosophie des sciences dans son ensemble.
Download or read book Philosophie de la biologie written by François Duchesneau and published by Presses Universitaires de France - PUF. This book was released on 1997 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book La Philosophie de la biologie avant la biologie Une histoire du vitalisme written by Charles Wolfe and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Textes Cles de Philosophie de la Biologie written by Jean Gayon and published by . This book was released on 2020-10 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faisant suite au premier volume concerne principalement par les questions de l'explication biologique, de l'heredite et du developpement, ce second volume de philosophie de la biologie traite de l'evolution, de l'environnement et de la diversite biologique. La theorie de l'evolution constitue la principale theorie unificatrice touchant les etres vivants. Eclairant d'un jour nouveau des questions philosophiques majeures, tels que le finalisme ou la definition des especes naturelles, elle conduit a l'examen plus particulier des concepts d'adaptation, d'espece et d'unite de selection. Les textes ici reunis permettent d'explorer aussi bien les enjeux proprement scientifiques que leur impact sur les dimensions epistemologiques et ontologiques des sciences du vivant contemporaines.
Download or read book Philosophie de la biologie written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Philosophy of Biology written by Marjorie Grene and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is life different from the non-living? If so, how? And how, in that case, does biology as the study of living things differ from other sciences? These questions are traced through an exploration of episodes in the history of biology and philosophy. The book begins with Aristotle, then moves on to Descartes, comparing his position with that of Harvey. In the eighteenth century the authors consider Buffon and Kant. In the nineteenth century the authors examine the Cuvier-Geoffroy debate, pre-Darwinian geology and natural theology, Darwin and the transition from Darwin to the revival of Mendelism. Two chapters deal with the evolutionary synthesis and such questions as the species problem, the reducibility or otherwise of biology to physics and chemistry, and the problem of biological explanation in terms of function and teleology. The final chapters reflect on the implications of the philosophy of biology for philosophy of science in general.
Download or read book La philosophie de l organisme written by Hans Driesch and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Textes Cles de Philosophie de la Biologie written by Jean Gayon and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-27 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La philosophie de la biologie, tout en reconsiderant les principes de la tradition philosophique (l'essence, l'individualite, la nature humaine), s'interroge sur les fondements conceptuels, theoriques et methodologiques des sciences du vivant contemporaines. Parmi les questions les plus discutees, il y va aussi bien de la definition du gene que de l'interpretation des notions de selection naturelle et d'adaptation, ou encore de la question des unites de selection. Les textes proposes dans ce premier volume sont a l'image des problematiques diverses et fecondes qui se sont developpees ces cinquante dernieres annees. Ils traitent de l'explication biologique, de l'heredite, et du developpement. Dans leur dimension epistemologique ils considerent les notions de causalite, de loi, de theorie et de mecanisme. Dans leur dimension plus appliquee, ils s'efforcent de comprendre l'attribution de fonctions a certains traits du vivant ou le comment du fonctionnement des organismes (la transmission d'une information genetique, la neurotransmission, ou encore le developpement embryonnaire).
Download or read book Philosophy Biology and Life written by Anthony O'Hear and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates that biology and its underlying philosophy are in a state of development defying standard stereotypes.
Download or read book Philosophy of Biology written by Brian Garvey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major new series in the philosophy of science aims to provide a new generation of textbooks for the subject. The series will not only offer fresh treatments of core topics in the theory and methodology of scientific knowledge, but also introductions to newer areas of the discipline. Furthermore, the series will cover topics in current science that raise significant foundational issues both for scientific theory and for philosophy more generally. Biology raises distinct questions of its own not only for philosophy of science, but for metaphysics, epistemology and ethics. This comprehensive new textbook for a rapidly growing field of study provides students new to the subject with an up-to-date presentation of the key philosophical issues. Care is taken throughout to keep the technicalities accessible to the non-biologist but without sacrificing the philosophical subtleties. The first part of the book covers the philosophical challenges posed by evolution and evolutionary biology, beginning with Darwin's central argument in the Origin of the Species. Individual chapters cover natural selection, the selfish gene, alternative units of selection, developmental systems theory, adaptionism and issues in macroevolution. The second part of the book examines philosophical questions arising in connection with biological traits, function, nature and nurture, and biological kinds. The third part of the book examines metaphysical questions, biology's relation with the traditional concerns of philosophy of science, and how evolution has been introduced into epistemological debates. The final part considers the relevance of biology to questions about ethics, religion and human nature.
Download or read book Essais de philosophie et d histoire de la biologie written by Eugène Gley and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Philosophy of Biology written by and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2007-02-05 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophy of Biology is a rapidly expanding field. It is concerned with explanatory concepts in evolution, genetics, and ecology. This collection of 25 essays by leading researchers provides an overview of the state of the field. These essays are wholly new; none of them could have been written even ten years ago. They demonstrate how philosophical analysis has been able to contribute to sometimes contested areas of scientific theory making. -Written by internationally acknowledged leaders in the field- Entries make original contributions as well as summarizing state of the art discoveries in the field- Easy to read and understand
Download or read book Philosophy of Biology written by Alex Rosenberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-12-19 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is life a purely physical process? What is human nature? Which of our traits is essential to us? In this volume, Daniel McShea and Alex Rosenberg – a biologist and a philosopher, respectively – join forces to create a new gateway to the philosophy of biology; making the major issues accessible and relevant to biologists and philosophers alike. Exploring concepts such as supervenience; the controversies about genocentrism and genetic determinism; and the debate about major transitions central to contemporary thinking about macroevolution; the authors lay out the broad terms in which we should assess the impact of biology on human capacities, social institutions and ethical values.
Download or read book Foundations of Biophilosophy written by Martin Mahner and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1997-05-20 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past three decades, the philosophy of biology has emerged from the shadow of the philosophy of physics to become a respectable and thriving philosophical subdiscipline. In their book, the authors take a fresh look at the life sciences and their philosophy from a strictly realist and emergentist-naturalist perspective. They outline a unified and science-oriented philosophical framework that enables them to clarify many foundational and philosophical issues in biology. Thus, this book should be of interest to both life scientists and philosophers and is suitable as a textbook for courses at the advanced levels as well as for independent study.
Download or read book Qu est ce que l Homme written by Luc Ferry and published by Odile Jacob. This book was released on 2000-04-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: « Les découvertes accomplies par les sciences de la vie depuis quelques années ne peuvent laisser personne indifférent. Aucun philosophe ne saurait désormais s’enfermer dans une tour d’ivoire et ignorer les résultats des sciences positives ; aucun biologiste ne peut se désintéresser des enjeux philosophiques que soulève presque chaque jour son travail. D’où le pari de cet ouvrage : nous initier l’un l’autre, et par là même le lecteur, aux éléments les plus fondamentaux de nos deux disciplines et approcher l’une des questions les plus cruciales de la pensée moderne, celle du statut de l’humain au sein du règne de la nature. » L. F. et J.-D. V. Luc Ferry est notamment l’auteur du Nouvel Ordre écologique, de L’Homme-Dieu ou le sens de la vie et de La Sagesse des modernes, avec André Comte-Sponville. Jean-Didier Vincent est en particulier l’auteur de Biologie des passions, de La Chair et le Diable et de Faust. Une histoire naturelle, avec Jean-François Peyret.
Download or read book Biologie actuelle et philosophie thomiste written by Patrick Chalmel and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Le hasard et la n cessit written by Jacques Monod and published by Contemporary French Fiction. This book was released on 2014-10-04 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cet ouvrage, un grand classique désormais, son auteur l'a écrit pour répondre au "devoir qui s'impose, aujourd'hui plus que jamais, aux hommes de science de penser leur discipline dans l'ensemble de la culture moderne pour l'enrichir non seulement de connaissances techniquement importantes, mais aussi des idées venues de leur science qu'ils peuvent croire humainement signifiantes. L ingénuité même d'un regard neuf (celui de la science l'est toujours) peut parfois éclairer d'un jour nouveau d'anciens problèmes...".
