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Télécharger le livre : Causal Pluralism in the Life Sciences
Kolja Ehrenstein
Causal Pluralism in the Life Sciences
This book takes a new approach to the debate on causal pluralism in the philosophy of biology by asking how useful pluralism is instead of debating its truth.  The core thesis in this work is that many problems do not hinge on the question of whether or not we...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2022-03-28
Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
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Télécharger le livre : Psychopathy
Luca Malatesti , John Mcmillan , Predrag Šustar
Psychopathy
This book explains the ethical and conceptual tensions in the use of psychopathy in different countries, including America, Canada, the UK, Croatia, Australia, and New Zealand. It offers an extensive critical analysis of how psychopathy functions within institutional...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2021-12-14
Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
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Télécharger le livre : Life and Evolution
Lorenzo Baravalle , Luciana Zaterka
Life and Evolution
This book offers to the international reader a collection of original articles of some of the most skillful historians and philosophers of biology currently working in Latin American universities. During the last decades, increasing attention has been paid in Latin...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2020-04-10
Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
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Télécharger le livre : Biological Robustness
Marta Bertolaso , Silvia Caianiello , Emanuele Serrelli
Biological Robustness
This volume reviews examples and notions of robustness at several levels of biological organization. It tackles many philosophical and conceptual issues and casts an outlook on the future challenges of robustness studies in the context of a practice-oriented philosophy...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2019-01-04
Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
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Télécharger le livre : Academic Theories of Generation in the Renaissance
Linda Deer Richardson
Academic Theories of Generation in the Renaissance
This volume deals with philosophically grounded theories of animal generation as found in two different traditions: one, deriving primarily from Aristotelian natural philosophy and specifically from his Generation of Animals; and another, deriving from two related...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2018-01-17
Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
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Télécharger le livre : Vital Forces, Teleology and Organization
Andrea Gambarotto
Vital Forces, Teleology and Organization
This book offers a comprehensive account of vitalism and the Romantic philosophy of nature. The author explores the rise of biology as a unified science in Germany by reconstructing the history of the notion of “vital force,” starting from the mid-eighteenth through the...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2017-10-03
Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
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Télécharger le livre : Zionism and the Biology of Jews
Raphael Falk
Zionism and the Biology of Jews
This book offers a unique perspective on Zionism. The author, a geneticist by training, focuses on science, rather than history. He looks at the claims that Jews constitute a people with common biological roots. An argument that helps provide justification for the...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2017-07-18
Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
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Télécharger le livre : Philosophy of Systems Biology
Sara Green
Philosophy of Systems Biology
The emergence of systems biology raises many fascinating questions: What does it mean to take a systems approach to problems in biology? To what extent is the use of mathematical and computational modelling changing the life sciences? How does the availability of big...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2016-12-15
Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
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Télécharger le livre : Philosophy of Cancer
Marta Bertolaso
Philosophy of Cancer
Since the 1970s, the origin of cancer is being explored from the point of view of the Somatic Mutation Theory (SMT), focusing on genetic mutations and clonal expansion of somatic cells. As cancer research expanded in several directions, the dominant focus on cells...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2016-08-24
Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
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Télécharger le livre : Naturalism in the Philosophy of Health
Élodie Giroux
Naturalism in the Philosophy of Health
In a series of papers published in the 1970s, Christopher Boorse proposed a naturalist theory of health, mainly based on a value-free concept of ‘biological function’, a concept of ‘reference class’ and the notion of ‘statistical normality’. His theory has profoundly...
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Parution : 2016-04-25
Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
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Télécharger le livre : Sadness or Depression?
Steeves Demazeux , Jerome C. Wakefield
Sadness or Depression?
The World Health Organization states that depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide, and predicts that by 2030 the epidemic of depression raging across the world will be the single biggest contributor to the overall burden of disease of all health...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2015-12-21
Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
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Télécharger le livre : Reductive Explanation in the Biological Sciences
Marie I. Kaiser
Reductive Explanation in the Biological Sciences
This book develops a philosophical account that reveals the major characteristics that make an explanation in the life sciences reductive and distinguish them from non-reductive explanations. Understanding what reductive explanations are enables one to assess the...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2015-12-16
Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
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Télécharger le livre : Early Modern Medicine and Natural Philosophy
Peter Distelzweig , Benjamin Goldberg , Evan R. Ragland
Early Modern Medicine and Natural Philosophy
This volume presents an innovative look at early modern medicine and natural philosophy as historically interrelated developments. The individual chapters chart this interrelation in a variety of contexts, from the Humanists who drew on Hippocrates, Galen, and Aristotle...
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Parution : 2015-12-11
Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
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Télécharger le livre : Origins of Biogeography
Malte Christian Ebach
Origins of Biogeography
This book presents a revised history of early biogeography and investigates the split in taxonomic practice, between the classification of taxa and the classification of vegetation. It moves beyond the traditional belief that biogeography is born from a synthesis of...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2015-07-03
Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
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Télécharger le livre : Explaining Photosynthesis
Kärin Nickelsen
Explaining Photosynthesis
Recounting the compelling story of a scientific discovery that took more than a century to complete, this trail-blazing monograph focuses on methodological issues and is the first to delve into this subject. This book charts how the biochemical and biophysical...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2015-06-17
Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
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Télécharger le livre : Explanation in Biology
Pierre-Alain Braillard , Christophe Malaterre
Explanation in Biology
Patterns of explanation in biology have long been recognized as different from those deployed in other scientific disciplines, especially that of physics. Celebrating the diversity of interpretative models found in biology, this volume details their varying types as...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2015-06-10
Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
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Télécharger le livre : The DSM-5 in Perspective
Steeves Demazeux , Patrick Singy
The DSM-5 in Perspective
Since its third edition in 1980, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) of the American Psychiatric Association has acquired a hegemonic role in the health care professions and has had a broad impact on the lay public. The publication in May...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2015-02-28
Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
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Télécharger le livre : Current Perspectives on Sexual Selection
Thierry Hoquet
Current Perspectives on Sexual Selection
This root-and-branch re-evaluation of Darwin’s concept of sexual selection tackles the subject from historical, epistemological and theoretical perspectives. Contributions from a wealth of disciplines have been marshaled for this volume, with key figures in behavioural...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2015-01-28
Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
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Télécharger le livre : Classification, Disease and Evidence
Philippe Huneman , Gérard Lambert , Marc Silberstein
Classification, Disease and Evidence
This anthology of essays presents a sample of studies from recent philosophy of medicine addressing issues which attempt to answer very general (interdependent) questions: (a) what is a disease and what is health? (b) How do we (causally) explain diseases? (c) And how...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2014-10-15
Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
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Télécharger le livre : Brain, Mind and Consciousness in the History of Neuroscience
C.U.M. Smith , Harry Whitaker
Brain, Mind and Consciousness in the History of Neuroscience
This volume of essays examines the problem of mind, looking at how the problem has appeared to neuroscientists (in the widest sense) from classical antiquity through to contemporary times. Beginning with a look at ventricular neuropsychology in antiquity, this book goes...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2014-04-23
Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
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