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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.