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The Understanding of Nature

Essays in the Philosophy of Biology

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  • © 1974

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Authors:
  1. Marjorie Grene

    1. University of California, Davis, USA

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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 23)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
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  2. Causes

    • Marjorie Grene
    Pages 1-12

  3. Three Aspects of Perception

    • Marjorie Grene
    Pages 13-34

  4. Biology and the Problem of Levels of Reality

    • Marjorie Grene
    Pages 35-52

  5. Reducibility: Another Side Issue?

    • Marjorie Grene
    Pages 53-73

  6. Aristotle and Modern Biology

    • Marjorie Grene
    Pages 74-107

  7. Is Genus to Species as Matter to Form? Aristotle and Taxonomy

    • Marjorie Grene
    Pages 108-126

  8. Two Evolutionary Theories

    • Marjorie Grene
    Pages 127-153

  9. Statistics and Selection

    • Marjorie Grene
    Pages 154-171

  10. Biology and Teleology

    • Marjorie Grene
    Pages 172-179

  11. Bohm’s Metaphysics and Biology

    • Marjorie Grene
    Pages 180-188

  12. Darwin and Philosophy

    • Marjorie Grene
    Pages 189-200

  13. The Ethical Animal: A Review

    • Marjorie Grene
    Pages 201-206

  14. Explanation and Evolution

    • Marjorie Grene
    Pages 207-227

  15. On the Nature of Natural Necessity

    • Marjorie Grene
    Pages 228-242

  16. On Some Distinctions between Men and Brutes

    • Marjorie Grene
    Pages 243-253

  17. The Characters of Living Things

    • Marjorie Grene
    Pages 254-293

  18. The Characters of Living Things

    • Marjorie Grene
    Pages 294-319

  19. The Characters of Living Things

    • Marjorie Grene
    Pages 320-345

  20. People and other Animals

    • Marjorie Grene
    Pages 346-360
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About this book

No student or colleague of Marjorie Grene will miss her incisive presence in these papers on the study and nature of living nature, and we believe the new reader will quickly join the stimulating discussion and critique which Professor Grene steadily provokes. For years she has worked with equally sure knowledge in the classical domain of philosophy and in modern epistemological inquiry, equally philosopher of science and metaphysician. Moreover, she has the deeply sensible notion that she should be a critically intelligent learner as much as an imaginatively original thinker, and as a result she has brought insightful expository readings of other philosophers and scientists to her own work. We were most fortunate that Marjorie Grene was willing to spend a full semester of a recent leave here in Boston, and we have on other occasions sought her participation in our colloquia and elsewhere. Now we have the pleasure of including among the Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science this generous selection from Grene's philosophical inquiries into the understanding of the natural world, and of the men and women in it. Boston University Center for the R. S. COHEN Philosophy and History of Science M. W. W ARTOFSKY April 1974 PREFACE This collection spans - spottily - years from 1946 ('On Some Distinctions between Men and Brutes') to 1974 ('On the Nature of Natural Necessity').

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of California, Davis, USA

    Marjorie Grene

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Understanding of Nature

  • Book Subtitle: Essays in the Philosophy of Biology

  • Authors: Marjorie Grene

  • Series Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2224-8

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1974

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-0462-7Published: 30 September 1974

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-277-0463-4Published: 30 September 1974

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-2224-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0068-0346

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 379

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Medicine, Theory of Medicine/Bioethics

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