Zoological philosophy
Subtitle: an exposition with regard to the natural history of animals
By: J.B. Lamarck ; translated by Hugh Elliot ; with introductory essays by David L. Hull and Richard W. Burkhardt, Jr.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 453
ISBN-13: 9780226468105; 9780226468099
Subjects: Zoology.; Physiology, Comparative.; Psychology, Comparative.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Translation of: Philosophie zoologique.
Table of contents: title: The zoological philosophy of J.B. Lamarck / Richard W. Burkhardt, Jr.; title: Lamarck among the Anglos / David L. Hull; title: Preface; title: Preliminary discourse; title: Part one : Considerations on the natural history of animals, their characters, affinities, organization, classification and species.; title: On artificial devices in dealing with the productions of nature; title: Importance of the consideration of affinities; title: Of species among living bodies, and the idea that we should attach to that word; title: General principles concerning animals; title: On the true arrangement and classification of animals; title: Degradation and simplification of organization, from one extremity to the other of the animal chain, proceeding from the most complex to the simplest; title: Of the influence of the environment on the activities and habits of animals, and the influence of the activities and habits of these living bodies in modifying their organization and structure; title: Of the natural order of animals, and the way in which their classification should be drawn up, so as to be in conformity with the actual order of nature; title: Additions to the subject matter of chapters 7 and 8; title: Part two : An enquiry into the physical causes of life, the conditions required for its existence, the exciting force of its movements, the faculties which it confers on bodies possessing it, and the results of its presence in those bodies; title: Introduction; title: Comparison of inorganic bodies with living bodies, followed by a parallel between animals and plants; title: Of life, what it consists of, and the conditions of its existence in a body; title: Of the exciting cause of organic movements; title: Of orgasm and irritability; title: Of cellular tissue, regarded as the matrix in which all organization has been cast; title: Of direct or spontaneous generation; title: Of the immediate results of life in a body; title: Of the faculties common to all living bodies; title: Of the faculties peculiar to certain living bodies; title: Summary of part two; title: Part three : An enquiry into the physical causes of feeling, into the force which produces actions, and lastly into the origin of the acts of intelligence observed in various animals.; title: Introduction; title: Of the nervous system, its formation, and the various sorts of functions that it can fulfill; title: Of the nervous fluid; title: Of physical sensibility and the mechanism of sensations; title: Of the inner feeling, the emotions that it may experience, and the power which it thence derives for the production of actions; title: Of the force which produces the actions of animals, and of certain peculiar facts resulting from the use of this force; title: Of the will; title: Of the understanding, its origin, and the origin of ideas; title: Of the principal acts of the understanding, or those of the first order from which all the rest are derived; title: Introductory lecture for 1800; title: Biographical memoir of M. de Lamarck