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245 1 0 _aOn the Riddle of Life
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_bA Historico-Logical Study of Vitalism /
_cby Bohang Chen.
250 _a1st ed. 2024.
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300 _aXXI, 296 p.
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490 1 _aHistory, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences,
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505 0 _aChapter 1. Introduction: vitalism and the idea of a historico-logical study -- Chapter 2. Reconsider Hans Driesch’s vitalism: new perspectives -- Chapter 3 -- Vitalism and evolution -- Chapter 4. Vitalism and mind -- Chapter 5. Vitalism, heat, gravity, electricity, magnetism, and motion -- Chapter 6. Vitalism and chemistry -- Chapter 7. Vitalism and energy physics -- Chapter 8. Vitalism, thermodynamics, and statistical mechanics -- Chapter 9. Vitalism and quantum mechanics -- Chapter 10. Chronic vitalism: Lessons from the history of science -- Chapter 11. A critique of current philosophy of biology -- Chapter 12. Conclusion: On the riddle of life.
520 _aThis book presents a historico-logical study of vitalism. It begins by uncovering previously unknown doctrines of vitalism from the history of science—encompassing biological, physical, and social sciences—and then subjects these doctrines to a thorough logical analysis. Through this process, the book offers a unified conceptual framework to understand the major doctrines of vitalism in the history of science, ultimately relating vitalism to the question of life. Following the classical methodological approach endorsed by Immanuel Kant, nineteenth-century philosopher-scientists like Ernst Mach, and early-twentieth-century logical analysts, including logical empiricists, British analysts, pragmatists, Husserlian phenomenologists, and neo-Kantians, this work provides unconventional and valuable perspectives on vitalism and the riddle of life, appealing to a broad audience, including scientists, historians, and philosophers of science, particularly those from biological backgrounds.
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