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The End of Final Causes in Biology (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022) Loot Price: R1,308
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The End of Final Causes in Biology (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Lucas John Mix

The End of Final Causes in Biology (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)

Lucas John Mix

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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 the stage for new work moving forward.

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Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin: Switzerland
Release date: November 2022
First published: 2022
Authors: Lucas John Mix
Dimensions: 210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 149
Edition: 1st ed. 2022
ISBN-13: 978-3-03-114016-7
Categories: Books > Humanities > Philosophy > General
Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science
Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Evolution
Books > Philosophy > General
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LSN: 3-03-114016-8
Barcode: 9783031140167

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