The Problem of Animal Generation in Modern Philosophy现代哲学中动物繁衍问题
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作者： Justin E. H. Smith 著
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出版时间： 2006-3-1字数：版次： 1页数： 456印刷时间： 2006/03/01开本： 16开印次： 1纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9780521840774包装： 精装编辑推荐
作者介绍：Justin Smith
Justin Smith is assistant professor of philosophy at Concordia University in Montreal. A scholar of early modern philosophy, he has contributed to The Leibniz Review, History of Philosophy Quarterly, and the British Journal for the History of Philosophy.
内容简介
This book examines the early modern science of generation, which included the study of animal conception, heredity, and fetal development. Analyzing how it influenced the contemporary treatment of traditional philosophical questions, it also demonstrates how philosophical presuppositions about mechanism, substance, and cause informed the interpretations offered by those conducting empirical research on animal reproduction. Composed of cutting-edge essays written by an international team of leading scholars, the book offers a fresh perspective on some of the basic problems in early modern philosophy.
目录
List of Contributors page
Introduction
Ⅰ. THE DAWNING OF A NEW ERA
1.The Comparative Study of Animal Development: William Harvey’s Aristotelianism
2.Monsters, Nature, and Generation from the Renaissance to the Early Modern Period: The Emergence of Medical Thought
Ⅱ. THE CARTESIAN PROGRAM
3.Descartes’s Experimental Method and the Generation of Animals
4.Imagination and the Problem of Heredity in Mechanist Embryology
Ⅲ. THE GASSENDIAN ALTERNATIVE
5.The Soul as Vehicle for Genetic Information: Gassendi’s Account of Inheritance
6.Atoms and Minds in Walter Charleton’s Theory of Animal Generation
Ⅳ. SECOND-WAVE MECHANISM AND THE RETURN OF ANIMAL SOULS, 1650–1700
7.Animal Generation and Substance in Sennert and Leibniz
8.Spontaneous and Sexual Generation in Conway’s Principles
9.Malebranche on Animal Generation: Preexistence and the Microscope
10.Animal as Category: Bayle’s “Rorarius”
Ⅴ. BETWEEN EPIGENESIS AND PREEXISTENCE: THE DEBATE INTENSIFIES, 1700–1770
11.Explanation and Demonstration in the Haller-Wolff Debate
12.Soul Power: Georg Ernst Stahl and the Debate on Generation
13.Charles Bonnet’s Neo-Leibnizian Theory of Organic Bodies
Ⅵ. KANT AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES ON DEVELOPMENT AND THE PROBLEM OF ORGANIZED MATTER
14.Kant’s Early Views on Epigenesis: The Role of Maupertuis
15.Blumenbach and Kant on Mechanism and Teleology in Nature: The Case of the Formative Drive
Ⅶ. KANT AND THE BEGINNINGS OF EVOLUTION
16.Kant and the Speculative Sciences of Origins
17.Kant and Evolution
Bibliography
Index