Tous les livres numériques de la collection "History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences" - Springer

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Causal Pluralism in the Life Sciences Kolja Ehrenstein This book takes a new approach to the debate on causal pluralism in the philosophy of biology by asking how useful pluralism is instead of debating its truth. The core thesis in this work is that many problems do not hinge on the question of whether or not we... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2022-03-28 Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences PDF, ePub 105,49 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Psychopathy Luca Malatesti , John Mcmillan , Predrag Šustar This book explains the ethical and conceptual tensions in the use of psychopathy in different countries, including America, Canada, the UK, Croatia, Australia, and New Zealand. It offers an extensive critical analysis of how psychopathy functions within institutional... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2021-12-14 Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences PDF, ePub 126,59 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Life and Evolution Lorenzo Baravalle , Luciana Zaterka This book offers to the international reader a collection of original articles of some of the most skillful historians and philosophers of biology currently working in Latin American universities. During the last decades, increasing attention has been paid in Latin... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2020-04-10 Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Biological Robustness Marta Bertolaso , Silvia Caianiello , Emanuele Serrelli This volume reviews examples and notions of robustness at several levels of biological organization. It tackles many philosophical and conceptual issues and casts an outlook on the future challenges of robustness studies in the context of a practice-oriented philosophy... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2019-01-04 Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Academic Theories of Generation in the Renaissance Linda Deer Richardson This volume deals with philosophically grounded theories of animal generation as found in two different traditions: one, deriving primarily from Aristotelian natural philosophy and specifically from his Generation of Animals; and another, deriving from two related... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2018-01-17 Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences PDF 147,69 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Vital Forces, Teleology and Organization Andrea Gambarotto This book offers a comprehensive account of vitalism and the Romantic philosophy of nature. The author explores the rise of biology as a unified science in Germany by reconstructing the history of the notion of “vital force,” starting from the mid-eighteenth through the... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2017-10-03 Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences PDF, ePub 68,56 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Zionism and the Biology of Jews Raphael Falk This book offers a unique perspective on Zionism. The author, a geneticist by training, focuses on science, rather than history. He looks at the claims that Jews constitute a people with common biological roots. An argument that helps provide justification for the... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2017-07-18 Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Philosophy of Systems Biology Sara Green The emergence of systems biology raises many fascinating questions: What does it mean to take a systems approach to problems in biology? To what extent is the use of mathematical and computational modelling changing the life sciences? How does the availability of big... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2016-12-15 Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences PDF, ePub 116,04 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Philosophy of Cancer Marta Bertolaso Since the 1970s, the origin of cancer is being explored from the point of view of the Somatic Mutation Theory (SMT), focusing on genetic mutations and clonal expansion of somatic cells. As cancer research expanded in several directions, the dominant focus on cells... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2016-08-24 Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences PDF, ePub 105,49 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Naturalism in the Philosophy of Health Élodie Giroux In a series of papers published in the 1970s, Christopher Boorse proposed a naturalist theory of health, mainly based on a value-free concept of ‘biological function’, a concept of ‘reference class’ and the notion of ‘statistical normality’. His theory has profoundly... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2016-04-25 Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences ePub 94,94 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Sadness or Depression? Steeves Demazeux , Jerome C. Wakefield The World Health Organization states that depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide, and predicts that by 2030 the epidemic of depression raging across the world will be the single biggest contributor to the overall burden of disease of all health... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2015-12-21 Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences PDF, ePub 52,74 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Reductive Explanation in the Biological Sciences Marie I. Kaiser This book develops a philosophical account that reveals the major characteristics that make an explanation in the life sciences reductive and distinguish them from non-reductive explanations. Understanding what reductive explanations are enables one to assess the... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2015-12-16 Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Early Modern Medicine and Natural Philosophy Peter Distelzweig , Benjamin Goldberg , Evan R. Ragland This volume presents an innovative look at early modern medicine and natural philosophy as historically interrelated developments. The individual chapters chart this interrelation in a variety of contexts, from the Humanists who drew on Hippocrates, Galen, and Aristotle... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2015-12-11 Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Origins of Biogeography Malte Christian Ebach This book presents a revised history of early biogeography and investigates the split in taxonomic practice, between the classification of taxa and the classification of vegetation. It moves beyond the traditional belief that biogeography is born from a synthesis of... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2015-07-03 Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences PDF, ePub 52,74 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Explaining Photosynthesis Kärin Nickelsen Recounting the compelling story of a scientific discovery that took more than a century to complete, this trail-blazing monograph focuses on methodological issues and is the first to delve into this subject. This book charts how the biochemical and biophysical... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2015-06-17 Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences PDF, ePub 105,49 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Explanation in Biology Pierre-Alain Braillard , Christophe Malaterre Patterns of explanation in biology have long been recognized as different from those deployed in other scientific disciplines, especially that of physics. Celebrating the diversity of interpretative models found in biology, this volume details their varying types as... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2015-06-10 Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences PDF, ePub 52,74 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The DSM-5 in Perspective Steeves Demazeux , Patrick Singy Since its third edition in 1980, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) of the American Psychiatric Association has acquired a hegemonic role in the health care professions and has had a broad impact on the lay public. The publication in May... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2015-02-28 Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences ePub 126,59 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Current Perspectives on Sexual Selection Thierry Hoquet This root-and-branch re-evaluation of Darwin’s concept of sexual selection tackles the subject from historical, epistemological and theoretical perspectives. Contributions from a wealth of disciplines have been marshaled for this volume, with key figures in behavioural... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2015-01-28 Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences ePub 68,56 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Classification, Disease and Evidence Philippe Huneman , Gérard Lambert , Marc Silberstein This anthology of essays presents a sample of studies from recent philosophy of medicine addressing issues which attempt to answer very general (interdependent) questions: (a) what is a disease and what is health? (b) How do we (causally) explain diseases? (c) And how... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2014-10-15 Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences ePub 52,74 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Brain, Mind and Consciousness in the History of Neuroscience C.U.M. Smith , Harry Whitaker This volume of essays examines the problem of mind, looking at how the problem has appeared to neuroscientists (in the widest sense) from classical antiquity through to contemporary times. Beginning with a look at ventricular neuropsychology in antiquity, this book goes... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2014-04-23 Collection : History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences ePub 147,69 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
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