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The Life Sciences in Early Modern Philosophy (Hardcover)
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The Life Sciences in Early Modern Philosophy (Hardcover)
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The present volume advances a recent historiographical turn towards
the intersection of early modern philosophy and the life sciences
by bringing together many of its leading scholars to present the
contributions of important but often neglected figures, such as
Ralph Cudworth, Nehemiah Grew, Francis Glisson, Hieronymus
Fabricius ab Aquapendente, Georg Ernst Stahl, Juan Gallego de la
Serna, Nicholas Hartsoeker, Henry More, as well as more familiar
figures such as Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Malebranche, and Kant.
The contributions to this volume are organized in accordance with
the particular problems that living beings and living nature posed
for early modern philosophy: the problem of life in general,
whether it constitutes something ontologically distinct at all, or
whether it can ultimately be exhaustively comprehended "in the same
manner as the rest "; the problem of the structure of living
beings, by which we understand not just bare anatomy but also
physiological processes such as irritability, motion, digestion,
and so on; the problem of generation, which might be included
alongside digestion and other vital processes, were it not for the
fact that it presented such an exceptional riddle to philosophers
since antiquity, namely, the riddle of coming-into-being out of -
apparent or real - non-being; and, finally, the problem of natural
order.
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