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100 1 _aJohnstone, James,
_d1870-1932
245 1 4 _aThe philosophy of biology
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2020
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2020-03-23
505 0 _aThe conceptual world -- The organism as a mechanism -- The activities of the organism -- The vital impetus -- The individual and the species -- Transformism -- The meaning of evolution -- The organic and the inorganic -- Appendix: Mathematical and physical notions.
508 _aProduced by Thiers Halliwell, Richard Hulse, Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
520 _a"The Philosophy of Biology" by James Johnstone is a scientific publication written in the early 20th century. This work explores the philosophical implications and foundations of biological science, particularly focusing on concepts like consciousness, perception, and the nature of living organisms. Johnstone aims to develop a deeper understanding of biology through the lens of philosophy, suggesting that current biological theories may need to reassess their foundational philosophies as scientific knowledge evolves. At the start of the text, the author introduces the interplay between perception and the understanding of the biological organism's existence, arguing that consciousness shapes how organisms perceive and interact with their environment. Johnstone discusses the limitations of purely mechanistic explanations in biology, emphasizing that biological functions cannot be fully understood through the same frameworks that apply to physical phenomena. He sets the stage for a philosophical discussion on the nature of life, suggesting that much like physics evolved, biology too must evolve to grasp the complexities of life beyond mechanistic interpretations. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aBiology
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61663
999 _c102487
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