Philosophy of Biology Before Biology

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction






Cecilia Bognon-Kuess & Charles T. Wolfe. The idea of "philosophy of biology before biology": a methodological provocation
Part I. FORM AND DEVELOPMENT




Stephane Schmitt. Buffon's theories of generation and the changing dialectics of molds and molecules



Phillip Sloan. Metaphysics and "Vital" Materialism: The Gabrielle Du Chatelet Circle and French Vitalism



John Zammito. The Philosophical Reception of C. F. Wolff's Epigenesis in Germany, 1770-1790: Herder, Tetens and Kant
Part II. ORGANISM & ORGANIZATION




Francois Duchesneau. Senebier and the Advent of General Physiology



Tobias Cheung. Organization and Process. Living Systems Between Inner and Outer Worlds: Cuvier, Hufeland, Cabanis.
Part III. SYSTEMS




Georg Toepfer. Philosophy of Ecology Long Before Ecology: Kant's Idea of an Organized System of Organized Beings



Ina Goy. "All is leaf". Goethe's plant philosophy and poetry



Snait Gissis. 'Biologie': Lamarck's endeavor of a science of living entities

POSTSCRIPTS






Lynn Nyhart. A Historical Proposal Around Prepositions



Philippe Huneman. Philosophy after Philosophy of Biology before Biology

Cecilia Bognon-Kuess and Charles T. Wolfe. Conclusion

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