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1 online resource (270 pages)
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1st ed.
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9783031126048
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History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences Series ; v.29
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Intro -- Vitalism and Its Legacy in Twentieth Century Life Sciences and Philosophy -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: Vitalism and Its Legacies in Twentieth Century Life Sciences and Philosophy -- References -- Vitalism and the Problem of Individuation: Another Look at Bergson's Élan Vital -- 1 Driesch -- 2 Bergson's Critique -- 3 External Finalism -- 3.1 The Whole -- 3.2 Unity -- 3.3 Tendency -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- On the Heuristic Value of Hans Driesch's Vitalism -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Driesch's Empirical Falsification of Mechanical Models -- 2.1 Entwicklungsmechanik and the Roux-Weismann Thesis -- 2.2 The Discovery of Part Formation -- 2.3 Driesch's Method, Axiom and Prospective Approach -- 2.4 Driesch's Induction Model and Its Empirical Falsification -- 3 The Challenge of HESs and the Positive Heuristic of Driesch's Vitalism -- 3.1 Critical Idealism and the Argument for Vitalism -- 3.2 HES: The Developmental Explanandum of the Twentieth Century -- 3.2.1 Child's Metabolic Gradient Theory -- 3.2.2 Hans Spemann, Organizers and Fields -- 3.2.3 Lewis Wolpert's Positional Information Theory -- 3.3 Is HES a Vitalist Concept? -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- A Historico-Logical Re-assessment of Hans Driesch's Vitalism -- 1 Driesch's Vitalism: Introduction -- 2 History I: Driesch on Entelechy and Evolution -- 3 History II: Driesch on Entelechy and Physics -- 4 Logic I: The Logical (in Contrast to the Metaphysical) Refutation -- 5 Logic II: Theoretical Biologists and Their Envisaged Vital Laws -- 6 Conclusion: Entelechy and Life -- References -- "A Mountain of Nonsense"? Czech and Slovenian Receptions of Materialism and Vitalism from c. 1860s to the First World War -- References -- The Critical Difference Between Holism and Vitalism in Cassirer's Philosophy of Science -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Cassirer's Engagement with Lebensphilosophie.
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3 The Rejection of Physicalism -- 4 Holism Over Vitalism -- 5 An Interpretative Puzzle -- References -- Canguilhem and the Greeks: Vitalism Between History and Philosophy -- Bibliography -- Canguilhem and the Logic of Life -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Canguilhem and the Life of an Organism -- 3 The Logic of "Life at Large" -- 4 The Logic of the Living Individual -- 5 Canguilhem's Claim for Vitalism -- 6 Conclusions -- References -- Is There Not a Truth of Vitalism? Vital Normativity in Canguilhem and Merleau-Ponty -- 1 Historical Blindspot: Opportunities Missed, Opportunities Seized -- 2 Dialectical Blindspot: An Immodestly Vitalist Proposal -- 3 Mechanical Blindspot: Vital Normativity -- 4 Knowing Life: The Vital In-Between -- 5 Living Knowledge: From Technognosis to Metanormativity -- 5.1 In the Beginning Was the Deed: On Technognosis -- 5.2 Minded Life: On Hypervirtuality and Metanormativity -- 6 Conclusion: Life's Fecundity and Ouroboric Thought -- Bibliography -- Abbreviations -- Secondary Sources -- A 'Fourth Wave' of Vitalism in the Mid-20th Century? -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Of Molecules and Crick -- 3 Decoding Crick's Depiction of Vitalism -- 4 Identifying Crick's Vitalist Enemy -- 5 Demystifying Mid-Century Vitalism -- 6 Not Vitalism -- Bioexceptionalism -- 7 Conclusion -- 8 Postscript: Why Did Crick Speak at a High School? -- References -- Metabolism in Crisis? A New Interplay Between Physiology and Ecology -- 1 Introduction: The Metabolic Roots of Living Beings -- 2 Metabolism, "Freedom and Independence" or the Self-Production of the Organism -- 2.1 Direct Assimilation and the Alienation of Organic Life -- 2.2 Indirect Nutrition as a Means for the "Freedom and Independence" of the Organism -- 2.3 The Dialectical Autonomy of the "Metabolic Self" -- 3 Metabolism, Identity, and Microbiome Studies: Challenges from the Ecological View of Life.
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3.1 Challenges -- 3.2 Conceptual Issues: Biology of Organisms and Metaphysics of Identity -- 3.3 Ecologicizing Biology -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- Vitalist Arguments in the Struggle for Human (Im)Perfection: The Debate Between Biologists and Theologians in the 1960s-1980s -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Methodology -- 3 The Longue Durée of Developmental Idealism: In Search of the Best Path Toward Human Perfection -- 4 Normative Vitalism: Transformative Negation of Medically Proven Imperfection -- 5 Vital Human Imperfection: Unending Vulnerability vs. Lethal Adaptation -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- What Is Living and What Is Dead in Political Vitalism? -- 1 Vitalism and Its Avatars -- 2 Ernst Haeckel's Monism Between Mechanism and Vitalism -- 3 Hans Driesch's Vitalism and the Politics of Holism and Occultism -- 4 Afterlives of Political Vitalism -- References -- Index.
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Print version: Donohue, Christopher Vitalism and Its Legacy in Twentieth Century Life Sciences and Philosophy Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2023 ISBN 9783031126031
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