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Philosophy, History and Biology: Essays in Honour of Jean Gayon

This book builds on recent scholarship highlighted in the edited collections, Philosophie, histoire, biologie: mélanges offerts à Jean Gayon (Merlin & Huneman, 2018) and Knowledge of Life Today (Gayon & Petit 2018/2019). While honoring the career and the thought of Jean Gayon (1949-2018), th...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Méthot, Pierre-Olivier (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2023, 2023
Edition:1st ed. 2023
Series:History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
Subjects:
Philosophy Of Biology
Science / Philosophy
Biology / Philosophy
History Of Science
Science / History
Philosophy Of Science
Online Access:
Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction (P.-O. Méthot, F. Merlin, P. Huneman)
  • Part I: Historical Epistemology and Philosophy of Biology
  • Chapter 1. “From Historical Epistemology to Philosophy of Biology” (Pierre-Olivier Méthot)
  • Chapter 2. “Jean Gayon and the Historical Perspective in Philosophy of Biology” (François Duchesneau)
  • Chapter 3. “Taking Historical Epistemology to the International Scene” (Anastasios Brenner)
  • Chapter 4. “Jean Gayon, History and Philosophy of Biology: A New Synthesis” (Thomas Pradeu)
  • Chapter 5. "Title TBA" (Victor Petit)
  • Part II: History of Evolutionary Theory and Genetics
  • Chapter 6. “Jean Gayon and the History of French Genetics” (Richard Burian)
  • Chapter 7. “Population Genetics and the Evolutionary Synthesis: Remarks on the Contribution of Jean Gayon” (David Depew)
  • Chapter 16. “Practicing Evolutionary Biology with Jean Gayon” (Philippe Huneman)
  • Chapter 17. “Historical Epistemology and Analytic Philosophy: The Path of a Singular Synthesis. Testimony ofa Former Doctoral Student” (Élodie Giroux)
  • Chapter 18. “Title TBA” (Staffan Müller-Wille)
  • Chapter 19. “Jean Gayon: In Memoriam” (Hans-Jörg Rheinberger)
  • Chapter 8. “Local Traditions and the Death of Diffusion: Jean Gayon’s Contribution to Contemporary Narratives of ‘the Molecular Vision of Life’” (Edna Suarez)
  • Chapter 9. “Jean Gayon on Alfred R. Wallace’s Contribution to Evolutionary Theory” (Jon Hodge)
  • Part III: Case-studies in History and Philosophy of Biology
  • Chapter 10. “Locating the Human in the Biological World: A Way into the Species Problem” (Phil Sloan). Chapter 11. “Lamarck: Philosopher of Nature” (Stéphane Tirard)
  • Chapter 12. “A Critique of Jean Gayon’s Critiques of Cultural Evolution” (Jorge Martinez)
  • Chapter 13. “Between Science and Ideology: The Case of Clemence Royer” (Gérard Chazal)
  • Chapter 14. “Mill on Design and Natural Selection” (Denis Forest)
  • Chapter 15. “Eighteenth-Century uses of Vitalism in constructing Biology” (Charles T. Wolfe)
  • Part IV: Personal Reminiscences

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