| 书目名称 | The End of Final Causes in Biology | | 编辑 | Lucas John Mix | | 视频video | http://file.papertrans.cn/909/908726/908726.mp4 | | 概述 | Offers a straightforward introduction to critical teleology for biologists.Informed by discussions in philosophy and history while remaining focused on scientific concerns.Provides an account of how m | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .This book provides a straightforward introduction to teleology in biology, the work it did and the work it can do. Informed by history and philosophy, it focuses on scientific concerns. Seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth century biologists proposed a menagerie of biological “actors” to explain power without appealing to Aristotelian vegetable souls and final causes. Three constraints on teleology narrowed the field, selecting among the various actors as they mutated and recombined. Methodological naturalism, local adaptation, and blind chance each represent a significant philosophical advance in biology. Kant, Darwin, and the Modern Synthesis provided a new teleology, grounded in natural selection, an etiological recursion of form and function, and the details of carbon chemistry on Earth. They naturalized teleology, but they also finalized nature, shifting conceptions about the world and science. Understanding these links – historical, philosophical, and theoretical – sets thestage for new work moving forward.. | | 出版日期 | Book 2022 | | 关键词 | philosophy of biology; teleology; evolutionary theory; philosophy of science; darwin | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14017-4 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-14017-4 | | copyright | The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022 |
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