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The understanding of nature : essays in the philosophy of biology / Marjorie Grene
(Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 23)
(Synthese library ; v. 66)
| Publisher | Dordrecht ; Boston : Reidel Pub. Co. |
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| Year | c1974 |
| Codes | ID=2000318079 NCID=BA07757690
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| Language | English |
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| Size | xii, 374 p. : ill. ; 23 cm |
| Contents | Causes Three aspects of perception Biology and the problem of levels of reality Reducibility Aristotle and modern biology Is genus to species as matter to form? Two evolutionary theories Statistics and selection Biology and teleology Bohm's metaphysics and biology Darwin and philosophy The ethical animal : a review Explanation and evolution On the nature of natural necessity On some distinctions between men and brutes The characters of living things. I: the biological philosophy of Adolf Portmann The characters of living things. II: The phenomenology of Erwin Straus The characters of living things. III: Helmuth Plessner's theory of organic models [sic] People and other animals |
| Notes | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Authors | *Grene, Marjorie Glicksman, 1910- |
| Subjects | LCSH:Biology -- Philosophy -- Addresses, essays, lectures All Subject Search |
| Classification | LCC:Q174 LCC:QH331 DC:501 s DC:574/.01 |
| Vol | : cloth ; ISBN:9027704627 : pbk ; ISBN:9027704635 |
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| North Library (Closed Stack, 1st-3rd, Books) | : pbk | 501/G865 | 7020110960 |
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| Philosophy of Science, Graduate School of Science | : cloth | 108/S78 | 2021016368 |
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