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Originally published in 1969. Since the seventeenth century the kind of knowledge afforded by mathematical physics has come more and more to furnish mankind with an ideal for all knowledge. The ideal also carries with it a new conception of the nature of things: all things whatsoever are held to be intelligible ultimately in terms of the laws of inanimate nature. This reductionist formula can be overcome only by the fundamental rethinking of our philosophical premises. To contribute towards thsi rethinking was the aim of the Study Group at whose meetings this collection originated. The essayists come from a wide range of disciplines but all want to address the conflict in our culture. The first part consists of discussions of various fundamental problems in the sciences. There are essays on the inter-relation of physics and psychology, on the possible reduction of biology to physics and chemistry, on new approaches to experimental psychology, against the possibility of giving a purely âfactualâ account of social and political life, and for a fundamental reform of our concept of responsibility. The second section of the book suggests lines of philosophical inquiry which might help to resolve the epistemological and ethical problems arising at the foundations of physics, biology, psychology and the social sciences.
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9781138903654 | Routledge, May 18, 2015, cover price $155.00 | About this edition: Originally published in 1969.
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9781138908741 | Reprint edition (Routledge, May 22, 2016), cover price $49.95
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9780521643801 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 2, 2004, cover price $54.99
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9780521643719 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 2, 2004, cover price $130.00
Product Description: Professor Grene is the 29th subject in a series that includes Albert Einstein, John Dewey, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Bertrand Russell. This book includes photographs, 25 critical essays by Greneâs distinguished peers  and her biting replies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780812695267 | Open Court Pub Co, January 1, 2003, cover price $55.95 | About this edition: Professor Grene is the 29th subject in a series that includes Albert Einstein, John Dewey, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Bertrand Russell.
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9781855065512 | Reprint edition (Thoemmes Pr, May 1, 1998), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A key introduction to Aristotle, emphasizing the importance of his biological thinking to the study of his thought.
9780226308227 | Univ of Chicago Pr, September 1, 1979, cover price $14.00 | also contains Pink Elephants: The 150 Most Requested Drink Recipes and Some Simple Snacks | About this edition: A key introduction to Aristotle, emphasizing the importance of his biological thinking to the study of his thought.
Product Description: AThink of the word "evolution": the name Darwin and the term "natural selection" come to mind. But any powerful general theory of evolution must account for social evolution, both human and nonhuman, and contemporary Darwinism has not persuasively made such an accounting...read more
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9780231079464 | Columbia Univ Pr, August 1, 1992, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: AThink of the word "evolution": the name Darwin and the term "natural selection" come to mind.
Product Description: Treats, in retrospect and prospect, dominant themes and main currents in twentieth century philosophy, such as the European sources of Anglo-American philosophy, Continental philosophy in America, and German and French Existentialism...read more
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9780819163240 | Univ Pr of Amer, November 1, 1987, cover price $47.99 | About this edition: Treats, in retrospect and prospect, dominant themes and main currents in twentieth century philosophy, such as the European sources of Anglo-American philosophy, Continental philosophy in America, and German and French Existentialism.
Product Description: Prefatory Explanation It must be remarked at once that I am 'editor' of this volume only in that I had the honor of presiding at the symposium on Spinoza and the Sciences at which a number of these papers were presented (exceptions are those by Hans Jonas, Richard Popkin, Joe VanZandt and our four European contributors), in that I have given some editorial advice on details of some of the papers, including translations, and finally, in that my name appears on the cover...read more
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9789027719768 | D Reidel Pub Co, November 1, 1986, cover price $269.00 | About this edition: Prefatory Explanation It must be remarked at once that I am 'editor' of this volume only in that I had the honor of presiding at the symposium on Spinoza and the Sciences at which a number of these papers were presented (exceptions are those by Hans Jonas, Richard Popkin, Joe VanZandt and our four European contributors), in that I have given some editorial advice on details of some of the papers, including translations, and finally, in that my name appears on the cover.
Product Description: Originally published in paperback in 1986, the essays in this book discuss questions about the growth and conceptual structure of the modern evolutionary synthesis, or 'neo-Darwinism'. Written by biologists, historians and philosophers, the collection provides a penetrating analysis of the development, meaning and problems of twentieth-century evolutionary theory...read more
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9780521310215 | Reprint edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, January 1, 1986), cover price $44.99 | About this edition: Originally published in paperback in 1986, the essays in this book discuss questions about the growth and conceptual structure of the modern evolutionary synthesis, or 'neo-Darwinism'.
Product Description: Book by Grene, Marjorie
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9780226308234 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, July 1, 1984), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Book by Grene, Marjorie
Product Description: Originally published in paperback in 1986, the essays in this book discuss questions about the growth and conceptual structure of the modern evolutionary synthesis, or 'neo-Darwinism'. Written by biologists, historians and philosophers, the collection provides a penetrating analysis of the development, meaning and problems of twentieth-century evolutionary theory...read more
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9780521254083 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 1, 1983, cover price $37.50 | About this edition: Originally published in paperback in 1986, the essays in this book discuss questions about the growth and conceptual structure of the modern evolutionary synthesis, or 'neo-Darwinism'.
Product Description: No student or colleague of Marjorie Grene will miss her incisive presence in these papers on the study and nature of living nature, and we believe the new reader will quickly join the stimulating discussion and critique which Professor Grene steadily provokes...read more
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9789027704634 | Reprint edition (Springer Verlag, September 30, 1974), cover price $269.00 | About this edition: No student or colleague of Marjorie Grene will miss her incisive presence in these papers on the study and nature of living nature, and we believe the new reader will quickly join the stimulating discussion and critique which Professor Grene steadily provokes.
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9780870230431 | Univ of Massachusetts Pr, August 1, 1969, cover price $20.00
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9780823666102 | Intl Universities Pr Inc, March 1, 1969, cover price $42.50
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9780226672854 | Univ of Chicago Pr, January 28, 1969, cover price $30.00
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