Entangled Life
Organism and Environment in the Biological and Social Sciences
Editors: Barker, Gillian, Desjardins, Eric, Pearce, Trevor (Eds.)
Free Preview- 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
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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.
- Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Introduction: Perspectives on Entangled Life
Pages 1-9
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The Origins and Development of the Idea of Organism-Environment Interaction
Pages 13-32
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James Mark Baldwin, the Baldwin Effect, Organic Selection, and the American “Immigrant Crisis” at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Pages 33-49
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The Tension Between the Psychological and Ecological Sciences: Making Psychology More Ecological
Pages 51-77
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New Perspectives on Organism-Environment Interactions in Anthropology
Pages 79-102
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Entangled Life
- Book Subtitle
- Organism and Environment in the Biological and Social Sciences
- Editors
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- Gillian Barker
- Eric Desjardins
- Trevor Pearce
- Series Title
- History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
- Series Volume
- 4
- Copyright
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
- eBook ISBN
- 978-94-007-7067-6
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-94-007-7067-6
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-94-007-7066-9
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-94-024-0009-0
- Series ISSN
- 2211-1948
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VI, 279
- Number of Illustrations
- 15 b/w illustrations
- Topics
