The understanding of nature
Subtitle: essays in the philosophy of biology
By: Marjorie Grene.
Series: Boston studies in the philosophy of science ;; v. 23; Synthese library ; v. 66
Publisher: Reidel Pub. Co.
Published: 1974
Place of publication: Dordrecht; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
Subjects: Biology -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Causes.; title: Three aspects of perception.; title: Biology and the problem of levels of reality.; title: Reducibility.; title: Aristotle and modern biology.; title: Is genus to species as matter to form?; title: Two evolutionary theories.; title: Statistics and selection.; title: Biology and teleology.; title: Bohm's metaphysics and biology.; title: Darwin and philosophy.; title: Explanation and evolution.; title: On the nature of natural necessity.; title: On some distinctions between men and brutes.; title: The characters of living things. I: the biological philosophy of Adolf Portmann.; title: The characters of living things. II: The phenomenology of Erwin Straus.; title: The characters of living things. III: Helmuth Plessner's theory of organic models [sic].; title: People and other animals.