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  1. The Kantian account of mechanical explanation of natural ends in eighteenth and nineteenth century biology.Henk Jochemsen & Wim Beekman - 2022 - History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 44 (1):1-24.
    The rise of the mechanistic worldview in the seventeenth century had a major impact on views of biological generation. Many seventeenth century naturalists rejected the old animist thesis. However, the alternative view of gradual mechanistic formation in embryology didn’t convince either. How to articulate the peculiarity of life? Researchers in the seventeenth century proposed both “animist” and mechanistic theories of life. In the eighteenth century again a controversy in biology arose regarding the explanation of generation. Some adhered to the view (...)
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  • Sarton, Science, and the End of History†.Christoph Meinel - 1985 - Berichte Zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 8 (3):173-179.
    Ausgehend von der Frage George Sartons nach der Bedeutung von Auschwitz und Hiroshima für die Geschichte der Wissenschaften soll hier der Versuch unternommen werden, die Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und der Technik einmal von ihrem möglichen und mit naturwissenschaftlich-technischer Perfektion herbeiführbaren Ende her zu bedenken: dem atomaren, biologischen und chemischen Holokaust, der, in Perversion, dann den vollständigsten Triumph über die Natur bedeutete, den Wissenschaft und Technik erringen könnten. Muß daher die Geschichtsschreibung der Naturwissenschaften, wenn sie glaubwürdig und aufrichtig bleiben will, nicht (...)
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  • Tadeusz Bilikiewicz’s Background in the Debate with Ludwik Fleck.Koterski Artur - 2016 - Laboratorio dell’ISPF 13.
    One of the factors that adversely influenced the worldwide reception of Fleck was the rather narrow critical interest that his ideas had aroused in Poland. Apart from a few reviews of his book, only two polemics were published before WWII, and these likewise fell into oblivion. The philosophical views of one of those polemists, Tadeusz Bilikiewicz, shared the same fate. Since an acquaintance with Bilikiewicz’s background would seem to be a necessary condition for a understanding of his controversy with Fleck, (...)
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