Thomas Whittaker, Whittaker Thomas

The Metaphysics of Evolution

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Trained as a scientist in the early days of Darwinism, Whittaker was fascinated by the interaction of science and metaphysics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 693g
• ISBN-13: 9781108004374
• ISBN-10: 1108004377
• Artikelnr.: 26969119

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue
Part I
Preface to the first part
1. A critical essay on the philosophy of history
2. 'Mind-stuff' from the historical point of view
3. Giordano Bruno
4. The musical and the picturesque elements in poetry
5. On the nature of thought
6. Philosophical antinomies
7. Giordano Bruno and his time
8. The problem of causality
9. Science and idealism
10. Correspondence
Part II
Preface to the second part
11. Apollonius of Tyana
12. Celsus and Origen
13. Origen as philosopher
14. John Scotus Erigena
15. Nicholas of Cusa
16. Animism, religion and philosophy
17. A compendious classification of the sciences
18. Teleology and the individual
19. A new metaphysic of evolution
Appendix.