The End of Final Causes in Biology | Buch

Cover: 9783031140167 | The End of Final Causes in Biology | Lucas John Mix | Buch | vii

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Beschreibung

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 thestage for new work moving forward.

Über den Autor

Dr. Lucas John Mix is the Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology and an associate in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard. He studies life concepts at the intersection of science, philosophy and theology and has worked with NASA Astrobiology programs for the last 25 years on understanding the meaning and extent of life.

His previous books include Life in Space: Astrobiology for Everyone (2009) and Life Concepts from Aristotle to Darwin: On Vegetable Souls (2018).

Zusammenfassung

Offers a straightforward introduction to critical teleology for biologists

Informed by discussions in philosophy and history while remaining focused on scientific concerns

Provides an account of how modern biology has constrained teleological thinking and language over last three centuries

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. An End to Ends?.- 2. What Makes Life Life-Like? The Dynamic Continuity of Living Things.- 3. Vegetable Souls in the Middle Ages.- 4. Mechanical Organisms in the Enlightenment.- 5. Who "Acts" in Biology? Biological Agents from Souls to Genes.- 6. Genes: The New Biological Agent.- 7. Can Teleology Be Saved? Three Constraints on Bioteleology.- 8. Genes and Natural Selection Finalize Nature.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2022
Genre:	Philosophie
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	vii 149 S.
ISBN-13:	9783031140167
ISBN-10:	3031140168
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	HC runder Rücken kaschiert
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Mix, Lucas John
Auflage:	1st ed. 2022
Hersteller:	Springer International Publishing Springer International Publishing AG
Maße:	216 x 153 x 14 mm
Von/Mit:	Lucas John Mix
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.11.2022
Gewicht:	0,328 kg

Artikel-ID: 122083845