The problem of animal generation in early modern philosophy / edited by Justin E.H. Smith.

The problem of animal generation in early modern philosophy /

In this volume Smith examines the early modern science of generation, which included the study of animal conception, heredity, and fetal development. Analyzing how it influenced the contemporary treatment of traditional philosophical questions, it also demonstrates how philosophical pre-suppositions...

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Other Authors: Smith, Justin E. H.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Series:Cambridge studies in philosophy and biology.
Subjects:
Reproduction.
Domestic animals > Reproduction.
Animals (Philosophy)
Embryology.
Reproduction
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • The comparative study of animal development : from Aristotle to William Harvey's Aristotelianism / James G. Lennox
  • Monsters, nature, and generation from the Renaissance to the early modern period : the emergence of medical thought / Annie Bitbol-Hespériès
  • Descartes' experiments and the generation of animals / Vincent Aucante
  • Imagination and the problem of heredity in mechanist embryology / Justin E.H. Smith
  • The soul as vehicle for genetic information : Gassendi's account of inheritance / Saul Fisher
  • Atoms and minds in Walter Charleton's theory of animal generation / Andreas Blank
  • Animal generation and substance in Sennert and Leibniz / Richard T.W. Arthur
  • Spontaneous and sexual generation in Conway's Principles / Deborah Boyle
  • Malebranche on animal generation : preexistence and the microscope / Andrew Pyle
  • Animal as category : Bayle's "Rorarius" / Dennis Des Chene
  • Explanation and demonstration in the Haller-Wolff debate / Karen Detlefsen
  • Soul power : Georg Ernst Stahl and the debate on generation / Francesco Paolo de Ceglia
  • Charles Bonnet's neo-Leibnizian theory of organic bodies / François Duchesneau
  • Kant's early views on epigenesis : the role of Maupertuis / John Zammito
  • Blumenbach and Kant on mechanism and teleology in nature : the case of the formative drive / Brandon C. Look
  • Kant and the speculative sciences or origins / Catherine Wilson
  • Kant and evolution / Michael Ruse.

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