Biology - philosophy
This is biology . Ernst Mayr and the autonomy of biology as a science
... evolutionary biology he has always been concerned with historical and philosophical questions in the science of life (although, he only published comprehensive works on these questions as an octo- and ...of ...
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Althusser – Philosophy and the spontaneous philosophy of the scientists
... of biology, resurfaces as the positive philosopher of the noosphere - that is, of human history); alienation, praxis, nothingness (in Nietzsche's sense), ...of philosophy in the strong sense: that is, a ...
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The autonomy of biology
... It would be ahistorical to ridicule vitalism. When one reads the writings of some of the leading vitalists, like Driesch, one is forced to agree with him that many of the basic problems of biology simply cannot be ...
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A first encounter: French environmental philosophy from an anglo-american perspective
... environmental philosophy and Aus- tralian and American environmental philosophy, we could no longer ignore ...environmental philosophy from the work of Martin Heidegger, after Heidegger’s Nazi ...
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Althusser – Lenin and Philosophy and
... This object is no business of the biologist's: this story is certainly not biological! -- since from the beginning it is completely dominated by the constraint of the sexed human order that each mother engraves on the ...
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An Introduction to Chinese Philosophy
... While belief in the unity of wisdom and virtue has strong Confucian over- tones, thinkers of the other schools also deliberated on the topic of xiushen. In the Mozi text, associated with Mohism, there is an entire ...
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Deep Education
... as philosophy (Naess, 1989) and educational philosophy (Ryan & Louie, 2007), ecology (Salleh, 2000), economy (McKibben, 2007), cultural studies (Shaules, 2007), psychology (Sternberg, 2007), ...
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Botany An Introduction to Plant Biology
... cell biology, including the discovery of cells themselves, were made in studies of plants, and many enzyme systems were first isolated from plants and were later confirmed to be present in animals as ...plant ...
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Biology of Healthy Aging and Longevity
... As human life expectancy is prolonged, age-related diseases are thriving. Aging is a complex multifactorial process of molecular and cellular decline that affects tissue function over time, rendering organisms frail and ...
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RNA Interference in Biology and Medicine
... Although RNAi as a mechanism of PTGS was first discovered in plants and may have evolved as a cellular defense mechanism against foreign DNA and RNA, it is very clear that RNAi is widely employed in most if not all ...
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TítuloPersuasion in English Philosophy Texts (CEPhiT)
... 18th-century Philosophy texts we have resorted to some of the linguistic features included in Biber’s Dimension 4 “Overt expression of persuasion” (1988): conditional subordinators, persuasive verbs, predictive ...
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Some contributions of philosophy to education
... Modes of transportation, communication, and interaction in every sphere have been radically accelerated, with the result that our globe has shrunk in physical size while cultural distances have, ironically, often widened ...
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TítuloArthur's Bentley obstinate philosophy
... In certain respects, Bentley’s fall into obscurity may be rather justified, especially if we were to try and assess this «austerely magnificent Bentleyan floating cosmology spanning millennia in time and space» (Lavine ...
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The future of evolutionary biology
... evolutionary biology, with all the implications for understanding the mechanisms and history of evolutionary change? Has that infusion run its course, or at least been so widely recognized as to have lost its ...
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Biology and economics : metaphors that economists usually take from biology
... natural biology theories of species survival, imply the equivalency in human and specie choices and thus a consistent and self-centered election present in all nature (Dowdy and Seidl, 2004, ...
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On the position of biology in systems biology
... of this phenomenon such as its robustness. As Braillard (2010) points out, the mechanism suffices for understanding how bacteria sense differences in concentration for a variety of ligands and how these differences ...
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The Matrix and Philosophy
... moral philosophy, such as the question whether our will is free or whether in fact we are deterministically controlled by forces outside ...First Philosophy, notably the Dream ...
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COMPLEJIDAD DE LOS SISTEMAS SOCIALES: UN RETO PARA LAS CIENCIAS SOCIALES
... ejemplo, Philosophy of Science, British Journal for Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of the Social Sciences–, el espacio dedicado a la discusión de la(s) relacion(es) entre ciencias sociales y ...
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The end of philosophy
... As the etymology of the term indicates, wisdom is the telos of phi- losophy, and wisdom is preeminently that knowledge of the divine that is attainable by human knowers. Philosophy reaches its goal in theology. ...
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