The Life Sciences in Early Modern Philosophy

ISBN: 9780199987313 出版年：2014 页码：273 Oxford University Press

Table of Contents 1. Introduction: Ohad Nachtomy and Justin E. H. Smith I. The Nature of Living Beings 2. Ohad Nachtomy, "What's Infinity Got to Do with Life? The Role of Infinity in Leibniz's Theory of Living Beings" 3. Raphaele Andrault, "What Is Life? A Comparative Study of Ralph Cudworth and Nehemiah Grew" 4. Thomas Teufel, "The Impossibility of a Newton of the Blade of Grass in Kant's Teleology" II. The Structure of Living Beings 5. Peter Distelzweig, "Fabricius' Galeno-Aristotelian Teleomechanics of Muscle Anatomy" 6. Anne-Lise Rey, "Metaphysical Problems in Francis Glisson's Irritability Theory" 7. Francois Duchesneau, "'Organism' in the Leibniz-Stahl Controversy" III. The Generation of Living Beings 8. Andreas Blank, "Material Causes and Incomplete Entities in Gallego de la Serna's Theory of Animal Generation" 9. Karen Detlefsen, "Biology and Theology in Malebranche's Theory of Organic Generation" 10. Catherine Abou-Nemeh, "Reaumur's Crayfish Experiment in Hartsoeker's Systeme: Regeneration and the Limits of Mechanism" 11. Charles T. Wolfe, "Epigenesis as Spinozism in Diderot's Biological Project" IV. The Order of the Living World 12. Lea F. Schweitz, "On the Continuity of Nature and the Uniqueness of Human Life in G. W. Leibniz" 13. Brian W. Ogilvie, "Orders of Insects: Insect Species and Metamorphosis between Renaissance and Enlightenment" Index