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Thinking about life : the history and philosophy of biology and other sciences

Surveys the nature of science and its emergence in post-Renaissance Europe. This book investigates the similarities and differences between biology and other sciences. It considers topics in the philosophy of biology (for example evolutionary theory, vitalism/mechanism, reductionism/holism, and spontaneous generation)

eBook, English, 2008
Springer, Dordrecht, 2008