The central insight of Darwin's Origin of Species is that evolution is an ecological
phenomenon, arising from the activities of organisms in the'struggle for life'. By contrast, the …

Even if the concept of organization is increasingly recognized as crucially important to
(philosophy of) biology, the fear of thereby collapsing into vitalism, understood as the …

Ultraviolet light (UV) is electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths between 10 and 400 nm
in the domain between X-rays and optical visible light. The UV spectrum is subdivided in …

The paper reviews the course of the controversy surrounding Jung's theory of archetypes
beginning in the mid 1990s and continuing to the present. Much of this controversy was …

Background Chiropractic emerged in 1895 and was promoted as a viable health care
substitute in direct competition with the medical profession. This was an era when there was …

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 …

Newton's impact on natural philosophy has been well studied, but little attention has been
paid to the role Newtonian “analogies” played in the formulation of conceptual schemes in …

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 …

The pp chain is the series of nuclear reactions converting four protons to one 4He nucleus
and releasing an energy of about 6.6 MeV/nucleon or 5 Â 1018 erg/gr. This provides the …

Georges Canguilhem is known to have regretted, with some pathos, that life no longer
serves as an orienting question in our scientific activity. He also frequently insisted on a kind …