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Author : Edmund Noble
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)
Download or read book Purposive Evolution written by Edmund Noble and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald A. Crosby
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438493983
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)
Download or read book Evolutionary Emergence of Purposive Goals and Values written by Donald A. Crosby and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where do the purposes, values, and existential meanings of the world come from? For many, they are conferred on the world and on humans within the world by a supernatural, transcendent, personal divine creator and sustainer. For others, they result from a God or divine presence residing within nature. For still others, they give evidence of mind and spirit as primordial principles suffusing nature from the outset and in all of its forms. In Evolutionary Emergence of Purposive Goals and Values, Donald A. Crosby takes issue with each of these views. His thesis is that mind, meaning, purpose, and value come into existence with the evolutionary emergence of life, and that evolution itself gives evidence of the creative power of two primordial natural principles: matter-energy and time. There is no overarching purpose, value, or meaning of nature as such, but there is a plethora of such factors evident in the evolved life forms of nature here on earth. This fact is especially evident in the day-to-day experiences, aspirations, and concerns of us evolutionarily-evolved human beings. Purpose, meaning, and value are therefore gifts of evolutionary nature, not of any supernatural or non-natural principle, presence, or power.
Author : Peter A. Corning
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262376024
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)
Download or read book Evolution "On Purpose" written by Peter A. Corning and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique exploration of teleonomy—also known as “evolved purposiveness”—as a major influence in evolution by a broad range of specialists in biology and the philosophy of science. The evolved purposiveness of living systems, termed “teleonomy” by chronobiologist Colin Pittendrigh, has been both a major outcome and causal factor in the history of life on Earth. Many theorists have appreciated this over the years, going back to Lamarck and even Darwin in the nineteenth century. In the mid-twentieth century, however, the complex, dynamic process of evolution was simplified into the one-way, bottom-up, single gene-centered paradigm widely known as the modern synthesis. In Evolution “On Purpose,” edited by Peter A. Corning, Stuart A. Kauffman, Denis Noble, James A. Shapiro, Richard I. Vane-Wright, and Addy Pross, some twenty theorists attempt to modify this reductive approach by exploring in depth the different ways in which living systems have themselves shaped the course of evolution. Evolution “On Purpose” puts forward a more inclusive theoretical synthesis that goes far beyond the underlying principles and assumptions of the modern synthesis to accommodate work since the 1950s in molecular genetics, developmental biology, epigenetic inheritance, genomics, multilevel selection, niche construction, physiology, behavior, biosemiotics, chemical reaction theory, and other fields. In the view of the authors, active biological processes are responsible for the direction and the rate of evolution. Essays in this collection grapple with topics from the two-way “read-write” genome to cognition and decision-making in plants to the niche-construction activities of many organisms to the self-making evolution of humankind. As this collection compellingly shows, and as bacterial geneticist James Shapiro emphasizes, “The capacity of living organisms to alter their own heredity is undeniable.”
Author : Frank Honywill George
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9782881241109
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)
Download or read book Purposive Behaviour and Teleological Explanations written by Frank Honywill George and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Trevor Pearce
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022672008X
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)
Download or read book Pragmatism's Evolution written by Trevor Pearce and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An important contribution . . . invaluable to anyone interested in the history of pragmatism and the influence of biology and evolution on pragmatic thinkers.” —Richard J. Bernstein, The New School for Social Research, author of The Pragmatic Turn In Pragmatism’s Evolution, Trevor Pearce demonstrates that the philosophical tradition of pragmatism owes an enormous debt to specific biological debates in the late 1800s, especially those concerning the role of the environment in development and evolution. Many are familiar with John Dewey’s 1909 assertion that evolutionary ideas overturned two thousand years of philosophy—but what exactly happened in the fifty years prior to Dewey’s claim? What form did evolutionary ideas take? When and how were they received by American philosophers? Although the various thinkers associated with pragmatism—from Charles Sanders Peirce to Jane Addams and beyond—were towering figures in American intellectual life, few realize the full extent of their engagement with the life sciences. In his analysis, Pearce focuses on a series of debates in biology from 1860 to 1910—from the instincts of honeybees to the inheritance of acquired characteristics—in which the pragmatists were active participants. If we want to understand the pragmatists and their influence, Pearce argues, we need to understand the relationship between pragmatism and biology. “Pragmatism’s Evolution is about the role of evolution, as a theory, in American pragmatism, as well as the early evolution of pragmatism itself.” —Isis “Superb.” —Metascience “[An] important book.” —Acta Biotheoretica “A significant and edifying work.” —Choice “Pearce has done something remarkable and all too rare: written a book at the intersection of philosophy, science, and history that is equally excellent in all three respects.” —International Journal of Philosophical Studies
Author : Nottidge Charles Macnamara
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Evolution and Function of Living Purposive Matter written by Nottidge Charles Macnamara and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Dewey
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809311323
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)
Download or read book The later works, 1925 - 1953. 3. 1927 - 1928 : [essays, reviews, miscellany, and "Impressions of Soviet Russia"] written by John Dewey and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ernst Mayr
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674271050
Total Pages : 742 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Evolution and the Diversity of Life written by Ernst Mayr and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The diversity of living forms and the unity of evolutionary processes are the focus of these essays. The collection helps form much of the basis of contempoary undertanding of evolutionary biology.
Author : Nicholas Maxwell
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228002877
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)
Download or read book Our Fundamental Problem written by Nicholas Maxwell and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2020-06-03 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can the world we live in and see, touch, hear, and smell, the world of living things, people, consciousness, free will, meaning, and value - how can all of this exist and flourish embedded as it is in the physical universe, made up of nothing but physical entities such as electrons and quarks? How can anything be of value if everything in the universe is, ultimately, just physics? In Our Fundamental Problem Nicholas Maxwell argues that this problem of reconciling the human and physical worlds needs to take centre stage in our thinking, so that our best ideas about it interact with our attempts to solve even more important specialized problems of thought and life. When we explore this fundamental problem, Maxwell argues, revolutionary answers emerge for a wide range of questions arising in philosophy, science, social inquiry, academic inquiry as a whole, and - most important of all - our capacity to solve the global problems that threaten our future: climate change, habitat destruction, extinction of species, inequality, war, pollution of earth, sea, and air. An unorthodox introduction to philosophy, Our Fundamental Problem brings philosophy down to earth and demonstrates its vital importance for science, scholarship, education, life, and the fate of the world.
Author : Nottidge Charles MacNamara
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781355897477
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Evolution and Function of Living Purposive Matter written by Nottidge Charles MacNamara and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-07 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
