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Vitalism and the Metaphysics of Life [PDF]
Life and Death in Early Modern Philosophy, 2021 I examine a series of definitions, defences and rejections of early modern vitalism. This yields a broad distinction between more or less metaphysically committed forms of vitalism.
C. Wolfe
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Vitalism Now – A Problematic [PDF]
Theory, Culture and Society. Explorations in Critical Social Science, 2019 This paper considers whether and how ‘vitalism’ might be considered relevant as a concept today; whether its relevance should be expressed in terms of disciplinary demarcations between the life sciences and the natural sciences; and whether there is a ...
M. Greco
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, 2011 Vitalism is typically presented as the belief – scientific, metaphysical, poetic and other – in the uniqueness of Life, presented as a ‘substance’, ‘force’, or ‘principle’. As such it is a frequently criticized theory, often in caricatural forms, where a model of the living being (notably of organism), embryo development, or forms of non-mechanical ...
WOLFE, Charles +2 more
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Models of organic organization in Montpellier vitalism [PDF]
, 2017 The species of vitalism discussed here is a malleable construct, often with a poisonous reputation (but which I want to rehabilitate), hovering in the realms of the philosophy of biology, the history of medicine, and the scientific background of the ...
C. Wolfe
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Explaining illness with evil: pathogen prevalence fosters moral vitalism [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2019 Pathogens represent a significant threat to human health leading to the emergence of strategies designed to help manage their negative impact. We examined how spiritual beliefs developed to explain and predict the devastating effects of pathogens and ...
B. Bastian +32 more
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Neither logical empiricism nor vitalism, but organicism: what the philosophy of biology was [PDF]
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 2015 Philosophy of biology is often said to have emerged in the last third of the twentieth century. Prior to this time, it has been alleged that the only authors who engaged philosophically with the life sciences were either logical empiricists who sought to
D. Nicholson, Richard Gawne
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Vitalism, Holism, and Metaphorical Dynamics of Hans Spemann's "Organizer" in the Interwar Period. [PDF]
J Hist Biol, 2022 This paper aims to provide a fresh historical perspective on the debates on vitalism and holism in Germany by analyzing the work of the zoologist Hans Spemann (1869–1941) in the interwar period.
Brandt C.
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Svätopluk Štúr’s criticism of Nietzsche’s vitalism
Ethics & Bioethics, 2023 Svätopluk Štúr is a strong critic of strands of German thought that emphasize the will to power as an organizing principle of human society. Štúr is particularly critical of Nietzsche’s vitalism, which Štúr believes culminated in national socialism and ...
Brice D. Cantrell
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Environmental Humanities, 2021 This article names and examines carbon vitalism, a strain of climate denial centered on the moral recuperation of carbon dioxide—and thus fossil fuels.
A. Pasek
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