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Author | : Jean-Jacques Kupiec |
Publisher | : World Scientific |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 981270499X |
Download The Origin of Individuals Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In the 17th century, Descartes put forth the metaphor of the machine to explain the functioning of living beings. In the 18th century, La Mettrie extended the metaphor to man. The clock was then used as the paradigm of the machine. In the 20th century, this metaphor still held but the clock was replaced by a computer. Nowadays, the organism is viewed as a robot obeying signals emanating from a computer program controlled by genetic information. This book shows that such a conception leads to contradictions not only in the theory of biology but also in its experimental research program, thereby impeding its development. The analysis of this problem is based on the most recent experimental data obtained in molecular biology as well as the history and philosophy of biology. It shows that the machine theory did not succeed in breaking with Aristotle's finalism. The book presents a new approach to biological systems based on cellular Darwinism. Genes are ruled by probabilistic mechanisms allowing cells to differentiate stochastically. Embryo development is not governed by a determinist genetic program but by natural selection occurring among cell populations inside the organism. This theory has considerable philosophical consequences. Man may be a machine but he is a random one.
Author | : Vincent Chetail |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 461 |
Release | : 2011-05-23 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9004194649 |
Download Vattel's International Law from a XXIst Century Perspective / Le Droit International de Vattel vu du XXIe Siècle Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
No other scholar has so deeply influenced the development of international law or shaped the doctrinal debates as Vattel. More than 250 years after its publication, his Law of Nations has remained the most frequently quoted treatise of international law. This volume explores the reasons behind the extraordinary authority of Vattel and analyses its continuing relevance for thinking and understanding contemporary international law.
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Publisher | : Odile Jacob |
Total Pages | : 681 |
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ISBN | : 2738192122 |
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Author | : Sylvain Auroux |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 1154 |
Release | : 2008-07-14 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110194007 |
Download History of the Language Sciences / Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaften / Histoire des sciences du langage. 1. Teilband Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Writing in English, German, or French, more than 300 authors provide a historical description of the beginnings and of the early and subsequent development of thinking about language and languages within the relevant historical context. The gradually emerging institutions concerned with the study, organisation, documentation, and distribution are considered as well as those dealing with the utilisation of language related knowledge. Special emphasis has been placed on related disciplines, such as rhetoric, the philosophy of language, cognitive psychology, logic and neurological science.
Author | : Eduard Reuss |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 852 |
Release | : 1860 |
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Download Histoire de la théologie chrétienne au siècle apostolique Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Ilai Alon |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2023-08-14 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004659366 |
Download Concepts of the Other in Near Eastern Religions Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Valentina Caminneci |
Publisher | : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 966 |
Release | : 2023-09-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1803271493 |
Download LRCW 6: Late Roman Coarse Wares, Cooking Wares and Amphorae in the Mediterranean: Archaeology and Archaeometry Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume presents almost 100 papers deriving from the 6th International Conference on Late Roman Coarse Wares, Cooking Wares and Amphorae in the Mediterranean. Themes comprise sea and land routes, workshops and production centres, and regional contexts (western Mediterranean, eastern Mediterranean, Sicily and the Mediterranean islands).
Author | : Thierry Gaudin |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2018-03-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1119516609 |
Download Life Sciences, Information Sciences Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Developed from presentations given at the Cerisy SVSI (Sciences de la vie, sciences de l’information) conference held in 2016, this book presents a broad overview of thought and research at the intersection of life sciences and information sciences. The contributors to this edited volume explore life and information on an equal footing, with each considered as crucial to the other. In the first part of the book, the relation of life and information in the functioning of genes, at both the phylogenetic and ontogenetic levels, is articulated and the common understanding of DNA as code is problematized from a range of perspectives. The second part of the book homes in on the algorithmic nature of information, questioning the fit between life and automaton and the accompanying division between individualization and invariance. Consisting of both philosophical speculation and ethological research, the explorations in this book are a timely intervention into prevailing understandings of the relation between information and life.
Author | : Schrijvers |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2018-07-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004351442 |
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This volume contains a collection of 11 studies on the philosophical and scientific background of Lucretius' De rerum natura. The studies 1-7 form a running commentary on the history of ideas in Drn. 5.780-1160 (Lucretius' famous description of the History of Human Mankind); 8-10 discuss some topics from book 4 (sleep, dreams, optical illusions) in relationship to other philosophical doctrines and ancient medical thought; the last study (11) treats the use of analogy by Lucretius.
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Total Pages | : 724 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : Ocean |
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