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Bergson's Philosophy of Biology Virtuality, Tendency and Time.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, (c)2022.Description: 1 online resource (300 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781474488839
  • 9781474488822
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • B2430 .B474 2022
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Contents:
Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Between Philosophy and Biology -- Vitalism, psychology, and metaphysics -- Outline and overview -- 1. The Actual: Mechanism, Finalism, Modality -- Introduction -- Mechanism -- a. Adaptationism -- born Developmental constraint -- Finalism -- a. Inner purposiveness -- born The metaphysics of possibility -- Genetics -- a. Development -- born Evolution -- Conclusion -- 2. The Virtual: Instantiation, Implication, Dynamics -- Introduction -- Instantiation -- a. Images -- born Possibilities -- c. Affordances -- Implication -- a. Contraction
c. Memory -- Dynamics -- a. Invention -- born 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 -- born Externalisation -- c. Localisation -- Temporalisation -- a. Individuation -- born Interpenetration -- c. Duration -- Conclusion -- 5. Finalism Inverted -- Introduction
Weismann redux -- Orthogenesis -- Vitalism in dispute -- a. Entelechy -- born Individuality -- True finalism -- a. Externality -- born Commonality -- c. Psychology -- Conclusion -- 6. Canalisation and Convergence -- Introduction -- Canalisation -- a. Images for development -- born Vision and its apparatus -- c. The inside of indetermination -- Convergence -- a. Definitions -- born Unity and complementarity -- c. Recollection and return -- d. Conservation and constraint -- Conclusion -- Concluding Remarks andFuture Directions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Subject: Reconstructs Bergson's philosophy of biology in dialogue with the life sciences of today.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

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 -- born Developmental constraint -- Finalism -- a. Inner purposiveness -- born The metaphysics of possibility -- Genetics -- a. Development -- born Evolution -- Conclusion -- 2. The Virtual: Instantiation, Implication, Dynamics -- Introduction -- Instantiation -- a. Images -- born Possibilities -- c. Affordances -- Implication -- a. Contraction

B. Themes -- c. Memory -- Dynamics -- a. Invention -- born 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 -- born Externalisation -- c. Localisation -- Temporalisation -- a. Individuation -- born Interpenetration -- c. Duration -- Conclusion -- 5. Finalism Inverted -- Introduction

Rhythm and reproduction -- Weismann redux -- Orthogenesis -- Vitalism in dispute -- a. Entelechy -- born Individuality -- True finalism -- a. Externality -- born Commonality -- c. Psychology -- Conclusion -- 6. Canalisation and Convergence -- Introduction -- Canalisation -- a. Images for development -- born Vision and its apparatus -- c. The inside of indetermination -- Convergence -- a. Definitions -- born Unity and complementarity -- c. Recollection and return -- d. Conservation and constraint -- Conclusion -- Concluding Remarks andFuture Directions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Reconstructs Bergson's philosophy of biology in dialogue with the life sciences of today.

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