Download or read book Quelques aspects de l histoire des sciences du vivant written by Jean-Marie Exbrayat and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Une histoire de la biologie in dit written by Michel Morange and published by Média Diffusion. This book was released on 2016-01-14T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cette synthèse originale propose une histoire complète des sciences du vivant, de l'Antiquité à aujourd'hui, incluant des domaines souvent négligés comme l'écologie, l'éthologie ou la biologie végétale et donnant une grande place au contexte socio-technologique. Son ambition est d'aider à comprendre la biologie actuelle : les modèles utilisés par les biologistes contemporains et les débats qui animent les sciences du vivant portent en eux l'histoire dont ils sont le fruit. Un tel ouvrage est indispensable aux chercheurs et aux étudiants en sciences de la vie, qui méconnaissent trop souvent l'histoire de leur discipline, aux historiens eux-mêmes pour qui les sciences prennent une importance croissante et à tout lecteur intéressé par l'évolution des idées. Michel Morange, biologiste, est professeur à l'université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie et à l'École normale supérieure de Paris. Il est l'auteur de plusieurs ouvrages, dont Histoire de la biologie moléculaire et Les Secrets du vivant : contre la pensée unique en biologie.
Download or read book La Vie l volution et l Histoire written by Michel Morange and published by Odile Jacob. This book was released on 2011-01-27 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les commémorations récentes autour de Darwin et de L’Origine des espèces ont surtout visé à défendre le darwinisme. On a un peu négligé les questions demeurées sans réponses dans les sciences du vivant, ainsi que leur désormais longue désunion. Cet ouvrage met au jour la convergence nouvelle qui semble au contraire apparaître entre les deux grands pans de la biologie, celui qui se concentre sur les mécanismes et celui qui prétend rendre compte de leur existence par des explications évolutionnistes. Il en sort ainsi une vision nouvelle du vivant. Ce grand rapprochement a aussi une autre conséquence : il oblige à repenser les rapports de la biologie au temps. Bref, pour Michel Morange, la vie est histoire(s). Dès lors, sciences biologiques et sciences historiques, sans se confondre, sont appelées à se rejoindre et à se féconder. Où en est la pensée biologique ? Quelle définition du vivant émerge des recherches récentes ? Michel Morange réussit une synthèse rare autour des fondements théoriques des sciences de la vie. Michel Morange est biologiste, professeur à l’université Paris-VI et à l’École normale supérieure. Il dirige le Centre Cavaillès d’histoire et de philosophie des sciences. Il est l’auteur, notamment, de La Part des gènes et de La Vie expliquée ?
Download or read book Une petite histoire des sciences written by William Bynum and published by De Boeck Superieur. This book was released on 2020-03-16 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cet ouvrage montre que les sciences sont incroyables ! Elles racontent l'espace, les microorganismes, le corps humain, l'histoire de la terre : elles permettent de comprendre le monde qui nous entoure. Cet ouvrage raconte une grande aventure. Celle qui emmène les lecteurs dans les étoiles grâce au télescope, qui analyse la composition de la terre, classe les éléments dans le tableau périodique, traite de la physique et explique l'électricité, la gravité et la structure de l'atome, qui a permis la découverte de l'ADN. Ce livre cherche aussi à ouvrir de nouvelles perspectives. C'est donc une histoire palpitante, pleine de rebondissements, parfois racontée avec humour. Le lecteur passera des moments passionnants et drôles.
Download or read book Archives Internationales D histoire Des Sciences written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 1668 written by Peter Sahlins and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-17 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Sahlins’s brilliant new book reveals the remarkable and understudied “animal moment” in and around 1668 in which authors (including La Fontaine, whose Fables appeared in that year), anatomists, painters, sculptors, and especially the young Louis XIV turned their attention to nonhuman beings. At the center of the Year of the Animal was the Royal Menagerie in the gardens of Versailles, dominated by exotic and graceful birds. In the remarkable unfolding of his original and sophisticated argument, Sahlins shows how the animal bodies of the menagerie and others (such as the dogs and lambs of the first xenotransfusion experiments) were critical to a dramatic rethinking of governance, nature, and the human. The animals of 1668 helped to shift an entire worldview in France — what Sahlins calls Renaissance humanimalism — toward more modern expressions of Classical naturalism and mechanism. In the wake of 1668 came the debasement of animals and the strengthening of human animality, including in Descartes’s animal-machine, highly contested during the Year of the Animal. At the same time, Louis XIV and his intellectual servants used the animals of Versailles to develop and then to transform the symbolic language of French absolutism. Louis XIV came to adopt a model of sovereignty after 1668 where his absolute authority is represented in manifold ways with the bodies of animals and justified by the bestial nature of his human subjects. 1668: The Year of the Animal in France explores and reproduces the king’s animal collections — in printed text, weaving, poetry, and engraving, all seen from a unique interdisciplinary perspective. Sahlins brings the animals of 1668 together and to life as he observes them critically in their native habitats — within the animal palace itself by Louis Le Vau, the paintings and tapestries of Charles Le Brun, the garden installations of André Le Nôtre, the literary work of Charles Perrault and the natural history of his brother Claude, the poetry of Madeleine de Scudéry, the philosophy of René Descartes, the engravings of Sébastien Leclerc, the trans_fusion experiments of Jean Denis, and others. The author joins the non_human and human agents of 1668 — panthers and painters, swans and scientists, weasels and weavers — in a learned and sophisticated treatment that will engage scholars and students of early modern France and Europe and readers broadly interested in the subject of animals in human history.
Download or read book Actes Du Congr s International D histoire Des Sciences written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Actes for 5th-11th Congress issued as Collection de travaux de l'Académie internationale d'histoire des sciences, 2-[17].
Download or read book The Atheist s Bible Diderot s l ments de physiologie written by Caroline Warman and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Love is harder to explain than hunger, for a piece of fruit does not feel the desire to be eaten’: Denis Diderot’s Éléments de physiologie presents a world in flux, turning on the relationship between man, matter and mind. In this late work, Diderot delves playfully into the relationship between bodily sensation, emotion and perception, and asks his readers what it means to be human in the absence of a soul. The Atheist’s Bible challenges prevailing scholarly views on Diderot’s Éléments, asserting its contemporary philosophical importance, and prompting its readers to inspect more closely this little-known and little-studied work. In this timely volume, Warman establishes the place of Diderot’s Éléments in the trajectory of materialist theories of nature and the mind stretching back to Epicurus and Lucretius, and explores the fascinating reasons behind scholarly neglect of this seminal work. In turn, Warman outlines the hitherto unacknowledged dissemination and reception of Diderot’s Éléments, demonstrating how Diderot’s Éléments was circulated in manuscript-form as early as the 1790s, thus showing how the text came to influence the next generations of materialist thinkers. This book is accompanied by a digital edition of Jacques-André Naigeon’s Mémoires historiques et philosophiques sur la vie et les ouvrages de Denis Diderot (1823), a work which, Warman argues, represents the first publication of Diderot’s Éléments, long before its official publication date of 1875. The Atheist’s Bible constitutes a major contribution to the field of Diderot studies, and will be of further interest to scholars and students of materialist natural philosophy in the Age of Enlightenment and beyond.
Download or read book Actes du XIe Congr s international d histoire des sciences Varsovie Toru Kielce Cracovie 24 31 ao t 1965 written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Geoffroy Saint Hilaire written by Herve Le Guyader and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2004-02-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A professor at twenty-one and member of the Napoleon's Egyptian expedition at twenty-six, Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire was a man of one idea, which he formulated when he was twenty-four. Nature, he thought, had formed all living beings with one single plan. This was a revolutionary idea—and one vigorously opposed by Geoffroy's colleague Georges Cuvier, a great anatomist and one of the giants of French science. In 1830, their long-running disagreement erupted into furious public debate. Geoffroy argued that all vertebrates shared the same basic body plan not just with each other but with insects as well. Cuvier strenuously disputed this idea, which he saw as tantamount to a belief in "transformism"—arguing instead that each species had its own special and permanent form. With Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Hervé Le Guyader provides an analysis not only of that infamous debate but also of Geoffroy's bold intuitions about anatomy and development. Featuring Geoffroy's published version of the 1830 debates—translated into English for the first time—the book also illustrates how Geoffroy's prescient insights foreshadowed some of the most recent discoveries in evolutionary and developmental biology.
Download or read book French Thinking about Animals written by Louisa Mackenzie and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together leading scholars from Belgium, Canada, France, and the United States, French Thinking about Animals makes available for the first time to an Anglophone readership a rich variety of interdisciplinary approaches to the animal question in France. While the work of French thinkers such as Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, and Felix Guattari has been available in English for many years, French Thinking about Animals opens up a much broader cross-cultural dialogue within animal studies. These original essays, many of which have been translated especially for this volume, draw on anthropology, ethology, geography, history, legal studies, phenomenology, and philosophy to interrogate human-animal relationships. They explore the many ways in which animals signify in French history, society, and intellectual history, illustrating the exciting new perspectives being developed about the animal question in the French-speaking world today. Built on the strength and diversity of these contributions, French Thinking about Animals demonstrates the interdisciplinary and internationalism that are needed if we hope to transform the interactions of humans and nonhuman animals in contemporary society.
Download or read book Enlightenment and Pathology written by Anne C. Vila and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If moods are as contagious as colds, and wickedness as debilitating as a bad diet, inquiries into assorted discourses in 18th-century France still have much to tell. Author Anne Vila shows that multiple junctures between the body and the mind promoted a steady commerce of speculation and discussion between science and the social salons of the time. 9 illustrations.
Download or read book Scientific Diasporas as Development Partners written by Gabriela Tejada and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last two decades, globalisation has accelerated international migration flows, particularly of skilled labour. Yet increasing migration by skilled workers from developing countries («brain drain») has raised serious concerns internationally about the adverse development impact on their countries of origin. This book, however, highlights the positive aspects of skilled labour migration as scientific diasporas are playing a growing role in the transfer of technology, skills and knowledge («brain gain») to their home countries. This is a very significant development in a globalised world where science, technology and knowledge can trigger economic and social transformations. The book presents solid empirical evidence of the contributions scientific diasporas make to their countries of origin, based on primary surveys of skilled migrants from Colombia, India and South Africa employed in Switzerland, a major destination country. The findings lead to a better understanding of the motives for migration, the profile of the scientific diaspora communities in Switzerland, and the varied ways in which they help their home countries. The book makes a significant contribution to the international policy debate and dialogue on migration and development. In particular, it shows how to leverage the potential of scientific diasporas as agents of home country development, by identifying good practices and offering specific recommendations for the countries of origin and of destination.
Download or read book Le ons l mentaires Sur L histoire Naturelle Des Animaux written by Jean Charles Chenu and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Actes du dixi me Congr s international d histoire des sciences written by Henry Guerlac and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbook of Evolutionary Thinking in the Sciences written by Thomas Heams and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-23 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Darwinian theory of evolution is itself evolving and this book presents the details of the core of modern Darwinism and its latest developmental directions. The authors present current scientific work addressing theoretical problems and challenges in four sections, beginning with the concepts of evolution theory, its processes of variation, heredity, selection, adaptation and function, and its patterns of character, species, descent and life. The second part of this book scrutinizes Darwinism in the philosophy of science and its usefulness in understanding ecosystems, whilst the third section deals with its application in disciplines beyond the biological sciences, including evolutionary psychology and evolutionary economics, Darwinian morality and phylolinguistics. The final section addresses anti-Darwinism, the creationist view and issues around teaching evolution in secondary schools. The reader learns how current experimental biology is opening important perspectives on the sources of variation, and thus of the very power of natural selection. This work examines numerous examples of the extension of the principle of natural selection and provides the opportunity to critically reflect on a rich theory, on the methodological rigour that presides in its extensions and exportations, and on the necessity to measure its advantages and also its limits. Scholars interested in modern Darwinism and scientific research, its concepts, research programs and controversies will find this book an excellent read, and those considering how Darwinism might evolve, how it can apply to the human sciences and other disciplines beyond its origins will find it particularly valuable. Originally produced in French (Les Mondes Darwiniens), the scope and usefulness of the book have led to the production of this English text, to reach a wider audience. This book is a milestone in the impressive penetration by Francophone scholars into the world of Darwinian science, its historiography and philosophy over the last two decades. Alex Rosenberg, R. Taylor Cole Professor of Philosophy, Duke University Until now this useful and comprehensive handbook has only been available to francophones. Thanks to this invaluable new translation, this collection of insightful and original essays can reach the global audience it deserves. Tim Lewens, University of Cambridge
Download or read book A Philosophy of the Insect written by Jean-Marc Drouin and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world of insects is at once beneath our feet and unfathomably alien. Small and innumerable, insects surround and disrupt us even as we scarcely pay them any mind. Insects confront us with the limits of what is imaginable, while at the same time being essential to the everyday functioning of all terrestrial ecosystems. In this book, the philosopher and historian of science Jean-Marc Drouin contends that insects pose a fundamental challenge to philosophy. Exploring the questions of what insects are and what scientific, aesthetic, ethical, and historical relationships they have with humanity, he argues that they force us to reconsider our ideas of the animal and the social. He traces the role that insects have played in language, mythology, literature, entomology, sociobiology, and taxonomy over the centuries. Drouin emphasizes the links between humanistic and scientific approaches—how we have projected human roles onto insects and seen ourselves in insect form. Caught between the animal and plant kingdoms, insects force us to confront and reevaluate our notions of gender, family, society, struggle, the division of labor, social organization, and individual and collective intelligence. A remarkably original and thought-provoking work, A Philosophy of the Insect is an important book for animal studies, environmental ethics, and the history and philosophy of science.
