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Author:   Marjorie Grene
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Kluwer Academic Publishers
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1974
Volume:   23
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.630kg
ISBN:  

9789027704634

ISBN 10:   9027704635
Pages:   379
Publication Date:   30 September 1974
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

I / Causes.- II / Three Aspects of Perception.- III / Biology and the Problem of Levels of Reality.- IV / Reducibility: Another Side Issue?.- V / Aristotle and Modern Biology.- VI / Is Genus to Species as Matter to Form? Aristotle and Taxonomy.- VII / Two Evolutionary Theories.- VIII / Statistics and Selection.- IX / Biology and Teleology.- X / Bohm’s Metaphysics and Biology.- XI / Darwin and Philosophy.- XII / The Ethical Animal: a Review.- XIII / Explanation and Evolution.- XIV / On the Nature of Natural Necessity.- XV / On Some Distinctions Between Men and Brutes.- XVI / The Characters of Living Things. I: The Biological Philosophy of Adolf Portmann.- XVII / The Characters of Living Things. II: The Phenomenology of Erwin Straus.- XVIII / The Characters of Living Things. III: Helmuth Plessner’s Theory of Organic Modals.- XIX / People and Other Animals.

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