Embodiment--defined as having, being in, or being associated with a body--is a feature of
the existence of many entities, perhaps even of all entities. Why entities should find …

Книга посвящена истории формирования науки во второй половине XVI–начале XVIII в.
и культурным контекстам, в которых это происходило. В центре внимания находятся …

In biology the term “vitalism” is usually associated with Hans Driesch's doctrine of the
entelechy: entelechies were nonmaterial, bio-specific agents responsible for governing a …

Since the mid-twentieth century, the 'Scientific Revolution'has arguably occupied centre
stage in most Westerners', and many non-Westerners', conceptions of science history. Yet …

I examine a series of definitions and ways of locating, defending or rejecting 'vitalism'in early
modern thought, roughly from the mid-seventeenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries. This …

From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, new anatomical investigations of the brain and
the nervous system, together with a renewed interest in comparative anatomy, allowed …

Vitalism has spent most of the twentieth century, and part of the twenty-first, being perhaps
the most misunderstood and reviled philosophy of life, with organicism being a close second …

A common and enduring early modern intuition is that materialists reduce organisms in
general and human beings in particular to automata. Wasn'ta famous book of the time …

What is thehistorical epistemology of the life sciences? In what way does it differ from
historico-philosophical reflection on “foundational” or “conceptual” issues in the sciences …

A presente tese é uma investigação histórica, teórica e prática, sobre a tradução de fontes
primárias da história da ciência. O objeto tomado como estudo de caso para a pesquisa é o …