Title: Beliefs and biology : theories of life and living /
Authors: Trusted, Jennifer.
Publisher: Macmillan ; St. Martin's Press,
Year: 1996
Subjects: Life (Biology) Philosophy; Biology Philosophy
Abstract: "Shows how the science of biology has been influenced by ethical, religious, social, cultural and philosophical beliefs as to the nature of life and our human place in the natural world"--Publisher description.
Contents: 1. Primitive beliefs, classical theories, early practices -- 2. From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance : from scholasticism to the study of nature -- 3. The appeal to physical experiments -- 4. Interactions : fact and theory -- 5. Arguments and counter-arguments : the Creation -- 6. Idealism and materialism -- 7. Natural selection and progress -- 8. Secular beliefs : suppositions and presuppositions -- 9. Molecular biology : metaphorical animism and a new teleology.