Bergson's Philosophy of Biology : Virtuality, Tendency and Time.
Reconstructs Bergson's philosophy of biology in dialogue with the life sciences of today.
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| フォーマット: | Licensed eBooks |
| 言語: | 英語 |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
2022.
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| シリーズ: | Edinburgh scholarship online.
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| オンライン･アクセス: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctv32vqhg8 |
目次:
- Intro
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Between Philosophy and Biology
- Vitalism, psychology, and metaphysics
- Outline and overview
- 1. The Actual: Mechanism, Finalism, Modality
- Introduction
- Mechanism
- a. Adaptationism
- b. Developmental constraint
- Finalism
- a. Inner purposiveness
- b. The metaphysics of possibility
- Genetics
- a. Development
- b. Evolution
- Conclusion
- 2. The Virtual: Instantiation, Implication, Dynamics
- Introduction
- Instantiation
- a. Images
- b. Possibilities
- c. Affordances
- Implication
- a. Contraction
- B. Themes
- c. Memory
- Dynamics
- a. Invention
- b. Affordances
- c. Performances
- Conclusion
- 3. A Discourse on Tendency
- Introduction
- Intellectual effort and élan vital
- The development of an idea
- The theory of tendency
- The modal-mereological difference
- Virtuality and the dispositional modality
- Conclusion
- 4. Individuality and Organisation
- Introduction
- Spatialisation
- a. Isolation
- b. Externalisation
- c. Localisation
- Temporalisation
- a. Individuation
- b. Interpenetration
- c. Duration
- Conclusion
- 5. Finalism Inverted
- Introduction
- Rhythm and reproduction
- Weismann redux
- Orthogenesis
- Vitalism in dispute
- a. Entelechy
- b. Individuality
- True finalism
- a. Externality
- b. Commonality
- c. Psychology
- Conclusion
- 6. Canalisation and Convergence
- Introduction
- Canalisation
- a. Images for development
- b. Vision and its apparatus
- c. The inside of indetermination
- Convergence
- a. Definitions
- b. Unity and complementarity
- c. Recollection and return
- d. Conservation and constraint
- Conclusion
- Concluding Remarks andFuture Directions
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index