| Series |
Cambridge studies in philosophy and biology
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| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 417-445) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2005021617 |
| ISBN | 0521840775 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9780521840774 |
