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The Strategy of Life - Teleology and Mechanics in Nineteenth Century German Biology (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1982)
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The Strategy of Life - Teleology and Mechanics in Nineteenth Century German Biology (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1982)
Series: Studies in the History of Modern Science, 13
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Teleological thinking has been steadfastly resisted by modern
biology. And yet, in nearly every area of research biologists are
hard pressed to find language that does not impute purposiveness to
living forms. The life of the individual organism, if not life
itself, seems to make use of a variety of strate gems in achieving
its purposes. But in an age when physical models dominate our
imagination and when physics itself has become accustomed to
uncertainty relations and complementarity, biologists have learned
to live with a kind of schizophrenic language, employing terms like
'selfish genes' and 'survival machines' to describe the behavior of
organisms as if they were somehow purposive yet all the while
intending that they are highly complicated mechanisms. The present
study treats a period in the history of the life sciences when the
imputation of purposiveness to biological organization was not
regarded an embarrassment but rather an accepted fact, and when the
principal goal was to reap the benefits of mechanistic explanations
by finding a. means of in corporating them within the guidelines of
a teleological fmmework. Whereas the history of German biology in
the early nineteenth century is usually dismissed as an unfortunate
era dominated by arid speculation, the present study aims to
reverse that judgment by showing that a consistent, workable
program of research was elaborated by a well-connected group of
German biologists and that it was based squarely on the unification
of teleological and mechanistic models of explanation."
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