The understanding of nature: essays in the philosophy of biology.

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Grene, Majorie G., 1910-2009. The understanding of nature: essays in the philosophy of biology. Dordrecht ; Boston: D. Reidel, 1974, xii, 374pp., dust-jacket worn around edges with a few chips and tears, good blue cloth, lightly rubbed edges, top foredge soiled, LAID IN: printed card Compliments of the Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science. Boston studies in the philosophy of science v. 23CONTENTS: Causes.--Three aspects of perception.--Biology and the problem of levels of reality.--Reducibility.--Aristotle and modern biology.--Is genus to species as matter to form?--Two evolutionary theories.--Statistics and selection.--Biology and teleology.--Bohm's metaphysics and biology.--Darwin and philosophy.-- --Explanation and evolution.--On the nature of natural necessity.--On some distinctions between men and brutes.--The characters of living things. I: the biological philosophy of Adolf Portmann.--The characters of living things. II: The phenomenology of Erwin Straus.--The characters of living things. III: Helmuth Plessner's theory of organic models [sic].--People and other animals. 9789027704627 ISBN 9027704627. N° de ref. del artículo 88775

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