Vital Forces, Teleology and Organization
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Vital Forces, Teleology and Organization
Philosophy of Nature and the Rise of Biology in Germany
Gambarotto, Andrea
Springer International Publishing AG
05/2018
137
Mole
Inglês
9783319880235
15 a 20 dias
2526
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Introduction.- I. Generation.- 1. At the Origin of German Vitalism: the Haller-Wolff Debate.- 2. Vital Force and Epigenesis: Wolff's Theory of Generation.- 2.1. Discarding the Invisibility Argument.- 2.2. The Progressive Organization of Parts.- 3. Goal-Directed Organization: Wolff and Blumenbach on Teleology.- 3.1. Wolff''s Vital-Materialism.- 3.2. Realist-Teleological Vitalism: Blumenbach and the Bildungstrieb.- 4. Understanding Purpose: Kant as a Vitalist.- 4.1. Organized Beings and Machines: Kant on the Formative Force.- 4.2. Kant's Regulative Vitalism.- 5. Chemical Vitalism: Reil on the Vital Force.- 5.1. Vital Force as Result of Organization.- 5.2. Reil's Nomological Vitalism.- 6. Concluding Remarks .- II. Functions.- 1. The Goettingen School as Historical Category.- 2. Building Blocks of the Goettingen School: Haller on Vital Properties.- 2.1. Irritability and Sensibility: First Outline of Vitalist Physiology.- 2.2. "Vis Insita": Correlating Structure and Function.- 3. Foundationsof the Goettingen School: Vital Forces in Blumenbach's Physiology.- 3.1. Fluid and Solid Parts of the Living Body.- 3.2. Extending the Hallerian Model.- 3.3. Force and Function.- 4. Core of the Gottingen School: Kielmeyer's Lecture as Program for a General Biology.- 5. Explanatory Framework of the Goettingen School: Link's Deflationist Approach.- 6. Concluding Remarks.- III. Classification.- 1. Classificatory Frameworks in the Late-Eighteenth Century.- 2. Blumenbach on Natural History.- 3. The "Kantian Principle" for Natural History.- 3.1. A New Principle?.- 3.2. Ideas so Monstrous that Reason Recoils Before Them: Kant on Transformism.- 3.3. Phyletic Origin: Kant and Girtanner on Archetypes.- 4. The Unity of Plan in Goethe's Morphology.- 4.1. Metamorphosis as Idealized Epigenesis: Goethe's Relation to Wolff and Blumenbach.- 4.2. Archetype and Compensation: Goethe's Relation to Kielmeyer.- 5. "Vital-Materialism" and Naturphilosophie.- 5.1. "A New Epoch of Natural History": Schelling's Relation to Kielmeyer.- 5.2. The Unity of Plan in the Erster Entwurf .- 6. Transcendental Morphology: a Legacy of Naturphilosophie.- 6.1. Unity of Plan and Vertebrate Theory: Oken's Transcendental Morphology .- 6.2. Transcendental Morphology outside Germany: Geoffroy and Owen.- 7. Concluding Remarks.- IV. Biology.- 1. A New Epistemological Field.- 1.1. The Transformation of Natural History .- 1.2. Defining Life .- 1.3. Vital Force .- 2. The Goettingen School in the Biologie .- 2.1. Epigenesis and Biology.- 2.2. Reproductive Force in the Animal Kingdom.- 3. Naturphilosophie in the Biologie.- 3.1. Mechanism and Teleology.- 3.2. Nature and Spirit.- 4. Ecology and Transformation.- 4.1. Distribution of Living Forms.- 4.2. Transformation of Living Forms.- 5. Treviranus and Lamarck: Notes for a Comparative Perspective.- 6. Concluding Remarks.- Conclusion.
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Vitalism;Romantic Science;Philosophy of Nature;Naturphilosophie;Goettingen School;Johann Friedrich Blumenbach;Karl Friedrich Kielmeyer;Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus;Immanuel Kant;Friedrich Schelling
Introduction.- I. Generation.- 1. At the Origin of German Vitalism: the Haller-Wolff Debate.- 2. Vital Force and Epigenesis: Wolff's Theory of Generation.- 2.1. Discarding the Invisibility Argument.- 2.2. The Progressive Organization of Parts.- 3. Goal-Directed Organization: Wolff and Blumenbach on Teleology.- 3.1. Wolff''s Vital-Materialism.- 3.2. Realist-Teleological Vitalism: Blumenbach and the Bildungstrieb.- 4. Understanding Purpose: Kant as a Vitalist.- 4.1. Organized Beings and Machines: Kant on the Formative Force.- 4.2. Kant's Regulative Vitalism.- 5. Chemical Vitalism: Reil on the Vital Force.- 5.1. Vital Force as Result of Organization.- 5.2. Reil's Nomological Vitalism.- 6. Concluding Remarks .- II. Functions.- 1. The Goettingen School as Historical Category.- 2. Building Blocks of the Goettingen School: Haller on Vital Properties.- 2.1. Irritability and Sensibility: First Outline of Vitalist Physiology.- 2.2. "Vis Insita": Correlating Structure and Function.- 3. Foundationsof the Goettingen School: Vital Forces in Blumenbach's Physiology.- 3.1. Fluid and Solid Parts of the Living Body.- 3.2. Extending the Hallerian Model.- 3.3. Force and Function.- 4. Core of the Gottingen School: Kielmeyer's Lecture as Program for a General Biology.- 5. Explanatory Framework of the Goettingen School: Link's Deflationist Approach.- 6. Concluding Remarks.- III. Classification.- 1. Classificatory Frameworks in the Late-Eighteenth Century.- 2. Blumenbach on Natural History.- 3. The "Kantian Principle" for Natural History.- 3.1. A New Principle?.- 3.2. Ideas so Monstrous that Reason Recoils Before Them: Kant on Transformism.- 3.3. Phyletic Origin: Kant and Girtanner on Archetypes.- 4. The Unity of Plan in Goethe's Morphology.- 4.1. Metamorphosis as Idealized Epigenesis: Goethe's Relation to Wolff and Blumenbach.- 4.2. Archetype and Compensation: Goethe's Relation to Kielmeyer.- 5. "Vital-Materialism" and Naturphilosophie.- 5.1. "A New Epoch of Natural History": Schelling's Relation to Kielmeyer.- 5.2. The Unity of Plan in the Erster Entwurf .- 6. Transcendental Morphology: a Legacy of Naturphilosophie.- 6.1. Unity of Plan and Vertebrate Theory: Oken's Transcendental Morphology .- 6.2. Transcendental Morphology outside Germany: Geoffroy and Owen.- 7. Concluding Remarks.- IV. Biology.- 1. A New Epistemological Field.- 1.1. The Transformation of Natural History .- 1.2. Defining Life .- 1.3. Vital Force .- 2. The Goettingen School in the Biologie .- 2.1. Epigenesis and Biology.- 2.2. Reproductive Force in the Animal Kingdom.- 3. Naturphilosophie in the Biologie.- 3.1. Mechanism and Teleology.- 3.2. Nature and Spirit.- 4. Ecology and Transformation.- 4.1. Distribution of Living Forms.- 4.2. Transformation of Living Forms.- 5. Treviranus and Lamarck: Notes for a Comparative Perspective.- 6. Concluding Remarks.- Conclusion.
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