La Philosophie de la biologie avant la biologie

Une histoire du vitalisme

by Charles Wolfe

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Extent: 514 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: Philosophy

Series: Histoire et philosophie des sciences

Series volume number: 20

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(April 2019)

ISBN: 9782406080725

Price: $71.00

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Hardback (Published)

(May 2019)

ISBN: 9782406080732

Price: $132.00

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This work presents the materialism of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as the opposite of a metaphysics of vital forces imagined later. Both materialism and vitalism seek to capture the scientific shifts that followed the scientific revolution, culminating in “biology” at the end of the eighteenth century.

  • By (author) Charles Wolfe