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No student or colleague of Marjorie Grene will miss her incisive presence in these papers on the study and nature of living nature, and we believe the new reader will quickly join the stimulating discussion and critique which Professor Grene steadily provokes. For years she has worked with equally sure knowledge in the classical domain of philosophy and in modern epistemological inquiry, equally philosopher of science and metaphysician. Moreover, she has the deeply sensible notion that she should be a critically intelligent learner as much as an imaginatively original thinker, and as a result she has brought insightful expository readings of other philosophers and scientists to her own work. We were most fortunate that Marjorie Grene was willing to spend a full semester of a recent leave here in Boston, and we have on other occasions sought her participation in our colloquia and elsewhere. Now we have the pleasure of including among the Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science this generous selection from Grene's philosophical inquiries into the understanding of the natural world, and of the men and women in it. Boston University Center for the R. S. COHEN Philosophy and History of Science M. W. W ARTOFSKY April 1974 PREFACE This collection spans - spottily - years from 1946 ('On Some Distinctions between Men and Brutes') to 1974 ('On the Nature of Natural Necessity').

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Author:   Marjorie Grene
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Kluwer Academic Publishers
Edition:   1974 ed.
Volume:   23
Dimensions:   Width: 21.00cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 29.70cm
Weight:   1.610kg
ISBN:  

9789027704627

ISBN 10:   9027704627
Pages:   379
Publication Date:   30 September 1974
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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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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