From Aristotle to Darwin and back again : a journey in final causality, species, and evolution /
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| Author / Creator: | Gilson, Étienne, 1884-1978. |
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| Uniform title: | D'Aristote à Darwin et retour. English |
| Imprint: | San Francisco : Ignatius Press, c2009. |
| Description: | xxii, 241 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7911090 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Preface
- I. Aristotelian Prologue
- II. The Mechanist Objection
- III. Finality and Evolution
- A. Fixism
- B. Transformism
- 1. Lamarck
- 2. Darwin without Evolution
- 3. Evolution without Darwin
- 4. Darwin and Malthus
- 5. Evolution and Teleology
- IV. Bergsonism and Teleology
- V. The Limits of Mechanism
- VI. The Constants of Biophilosophy
- Appendix I. Linnaeus: Observations on the Three Kingdoms of Nature
- Appendix II. Darwin in Search of Species
- Notes
- Index
