Overview
- Integrates discussions in biology and social sciences about the relation between organism and environment
- Investigates the historical development of discussions of organism-environment interaction
- Provides historical and philosophical analyses of the organism-environment relationship with consequences for scientific research on this topic?
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences (HPTL, volume 4)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Historical Perspectives
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Front Matter
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Keywords
About this book
This volume explores the interactions between organisms and their environments and how this “entanglement” is a fundamental aspect of all life. It brings together the work and ideas of historians, philosophers, biologists, and social scientists, uniting a range of new perspectives, methods, and frameworks for examining and understanding the ways that organisms and environments interact.
The volume is organized into three main sections: historical perspectives, contested models, and emerging frameworks. The first section explores the origins of the modern idea of organism-environment interaction in the mid-nineteenth century and its development by later psychologists and anthropologists. In the second section, a variety of controversial models—from mathematical representations of evolution to model organisms in medical research—are discussed and reframed in light of recent questions about the interplay between organisms and environment. The third section investigates several new ideas that have the potential to reshape key aspects of the biological and social sciences.
Populations of organisms evolve in response to changing environments; bodies and minds depend on a wide array of circumstances for their development; cultures create complex relationships with the natural world even as they alter it irrevocably. The chapters in this volume share a commitment to unraveling the mysteries of this entangled life.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Entangled Life
Book Subtitle: Organism and Environment in the Biological and Social Sciences
Editors: Gillian Barker, Eric Desjardins, Trevor Pearce
Series Title: History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7067-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7066-9Published: 18 September 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0009-0Published: 27 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7067-6Published: 05 September 2013
Series ISSN: 2211-1948
Series E-ISSN: 2211-1956
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 279
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Biology, Evolutionary Biology, History of Science