Problem of Animal Generation in Early Modern Philosophy (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Smith, Justin E. H.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 about mechanism, substance, and cause informed the interpretations offered by those conducting empirical research on animal reproduction. Composed of essays written by an international team of leading scholars, the book offers a fresh perspective on some of the basic problems in early modern philosophy. It also considers how these basic problems manifested themselves within an area of scientific inquiry that had not previously received much consideration by historians of philosophy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511217630
• Artikelnr.: 38211382

Autorenporträt

Justin Smith is assistant professor of philosophy at Concordia University in Montreal. A scholar of early modern philosophy, he has contributed to The Leibniz Review, History of Philosophy Quarterly, and the British Journal for the History of Philosophy.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The Dawning of a New Era: 1. The comparative study of animal
development: from Aristotle to William Harvey J. G. Lennox; 2. Monsters,
nature, and generation from the Renaissance to the Early Modern period: the
emergence of medical thought Annie Bitbol-Hesperies; Part II. The Cartesian
Programme: 3. Descartes' experiments and the generation of animals Vincent
Aucante; 4. Imagination and the problem of heredity in Cartesian embryology
Justin E. H. Smith; Part III. The Gassdendian Alternative: 5. The soul as
vehicle for genetic information: Pierre Gassendi's account of inheritance
Saul Fisher; 6. Atoms and minds in Walter Charleton's theory of animal
generation Andreas Blank; Part IV. Second-Wave Mechanism and the Return of
Animal Souls, 1650-1700: 7 Animal generation and substance in Sennert and
Leibniz Richard T. W. Arthur; 8. Malebranche on animal generation:
pre-existence and the microscope Andrew J. Pyle; 9. Spontaneous and sexual
generation in Ann Conway's Principles Deborah Boyle; 10 'Animal' as
category: Pierre Bayle's 'Rorarius' Dennis Des Chene; Part V. Between
Epigenesis and Pre-Existence: The Debate Intensifies, 1700-70: 11. Method
and cause: the Cartesian context of the Haller-Wolff debate Karen
Detlefsen; 12. Soul power: G. E. Stahl and the debate on animal generation
Francesco Paolo di Ceglia; 13. Charles Bonnet's neo-Leibnizian theory of
organic bodies Francois Duchesneau; Part VI. Kant and His Contemporaries on
Development and the Problem of Organized Matter: 14. Kant's early views on
epigenesis: the role of Maupertuis John Zammito; 15. Blumenbach and Kant on
the formative drive: mechanism and teleology in nature Brandon Look; 16.
Kant and the speculative sciences of origins Catherine Wilson; 17. Kant and
evolution Michael Ruse.