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The problem of animal generation in early modern philosophy
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The problem of animal generation in early modern philosophy

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The comparative study of animal development : from Aristotle to William Harvey's Aristotelianism / James G. Lennox
Monsters, nature, and generation from the Renaissance to the early modern period : the emergence of medical thought / Annie Bitbol-Hespériès
Descartes' experiments and the generation of animals / Vincent Aucante
Imagination and the problem of heredity in mechanist embryology / Justin E.H. Smith
The soul as vehicle for genetic information : Gassendi's account of inheritance / Saul Fisher
Atoms and minds in Walter Charleton's theory of animal generation / Andreas Blank
Animal generation and substance in Sennert and Leibniz / Richard T.W. Arthur
Spontaneous and sexual generation in Conway's Principles / Deborah Boyle
Malebranche on animal generation : preexistence and the microscope / Andrew Pyle
Animal as category : Bayle's "Rorarius" / Dennis Des Chene
Explanation and demonstration in the Haller-Wolff debate / Karen Detlefsen
Soul power : Georg Ernst Stahl and the debate on generation / Francesco Paolo de Ceglia
Charles Bonnet's neo-Leibnizian theory of organic bodies / François Duchesneau
Kant's early views on epigenesis : the role of Maupertuis / John Zammito
Blumenbach and Kant on mechanism and teleology in nature : the case of the formative drive / Brandon C. Look
Kant and the speculative sciences or origins / Catherine Wilson
Kant and evolution / Michael Ruse.

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The problem of animal generation in early modern philosophy. ISBN 9780521840774. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2006. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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