Biology and the Riddle of Life

Biology and the Riddle of Life
Author: Charles Birch
Publisher: UNSW Press
Total Pages: 178
Release: 1999
Genre: Biology
ISBN: 9780868407852

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Annotation. "What is life? What does it means to be alive? Is the Earth a super-organism? Is God necessary? In Biology and the Riddle of Life Charles Birch confronts these fundamental questions at a time when such topics as genetic engineering, cloning and ecology have been prominent in the news. Birch confronts the impression that modern biology has answers to all that there is to be known about life. We need to move towards an understanding of living creatures as subjects, and not only as objects, in order to probe life's hidden secrets - what it is to be alive, what it is to experience pain, and what it is to be in love. The answer must include the meaning of life for us as individuals. Birch proposes a new perspective to bring subject and object together. This is the black box he has opened."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Riddle of Life

The Riddle of Life
Author: William McDOUGALL
Publisher:
Total Pages: 279
Release: 1938
Genre: Biology
ISBN:

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What is Life?

What is Life?
Author: Edward Regis
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2009
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0195383419

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This book provides an introduction to the work of the scientists who were attempting literally to create life from scratch, starting with molecular components that they hope to assemble into the world's first synthetic living cell. The book also examines how scientists have unlocked the "three secrets of life," describes the key role played by ATP ("the ultimate driving force of all life"), and outlines the many attempts to explain how life first arose on earth, a puzzle that has given birth to a wide range of theories.

Clues to the Riddle of Life

Clues to the Riddle of Life
Author: Malcolm E. Weiss
Publisher:
Total Pages: 107
Release: 1968
Genre: Biology
ISBN:

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Discusses how, through scientific research, man has unlocked some of the secrets about the origin, development, reproduction, and adaptation of the many forms of life.

Beyond Mechanism

Beyond Mechanism
Author: Brian G. Henning
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2013-02-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0739174371

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It has been said that new discoveries and developments in the human, social, and natural sciences hang “in the air” (Bowler, 1983; 2008) prior to their consummation. While neo-Darwinist biology has been powerfully served by its mechanistic metaphysic and a reductionist methodology in which living organisms are considered machines, many of the chapters in this volume place this paradigm into question. Pairing scientists and philosophers together, this volume explores what might be termed “the New Frontiers” of biology, namely contemporary areas of research that appear to call an updating, a supplementation, or a relaxation of some of the main tenets of the Modern Synthesis. Such areas of investigation include: Emergence Theory, Systems Biology, Biosemiotics, Homeostasis, Symbiogenesis, Niche Construction, the Theory of Organic Selection (also known as “the Baldwin Effect”), Self-Organization and Teleodynamics, as well as Epigenetics. Most of the chapters in this book offer critical reflections on the neo-Darwinist outlook and work to promote a novel synthesis that is open to a greater degree of inclusivity as well as to a more holistic orientation in the biological sciences.

Peirce and Biosemiotics

Peirce and Biosemiotics
Author: Vinicius Romanini
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2014-03-25
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9400777329

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This volume discusses the importance of Peirce ́s philosophy and theory of signs to the development of Biosemiotics, the science that studies the deep interrelation between meaning and life. Peirce considered semeiotic as a general logic part of a complex architectonic philosophy that includes mathematics, phenomenology and a theory of reality. The authors are Peirce scholars, biologists, philosophers and semioticians united by an interdisciplinary endeavor to understand the mysteries of the origin of life and its related phenomena such as consciousness, perception, representation and communication.

The Wonders of Life

The Wonders of Life
Author: Ernst Haeckel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 501
Release: 1904
Genre: Biology
ISBN:

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The Riddle of Life

The Riddle of Life
Author: William McDougall
Publisher: Hesperides Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2006-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1406709107

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Originally published in 1913. Author: Henri Lichtenberger Language: English Keywords: History Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Obscure Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Keywords: English Keywords 1900s Language English Artwork

The Wonders of Life

The Wonders of Life
Author: Ernst Haeckel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 501
Release: 1904
Genre: Biology
ISBN:

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"The publication of the present work on The Wonders of Life has been occasioned by the success of The Riddle of the Universe, which was written five years prior to this volume. Within a few months of the issue of this study of the monistic philosophy, in the autumn of 1899, ten thousand copies were sold. The clear opposition of the author's monistic philosophy, based as it was on the most advanced and sound scientific knowledge, to the conventional ideas and to an outworn "revelation," led to the publication of a vast number of criticisms and attacks. The present work on the wonders of life is, as the title indicates, a supplementary volume to The Riddle of the Universe. While the latter undertook to make a comprehensive survey of the general questions of science--as cosmological problems--in the light of the monistic philosophy, the present volume is confined to the realm of organic science, or the science of life. It seeks to deal connectedly with the general problems of biology, in strict accord with the monistic and mechanical principles which had been laid down by the author in 1866 in his work titled, General Morphology. In the latter publication, special stress was placed on the universality of the law of substance and the substantial unity of nature, which had been further treated in the second and fourteenth chapters of The Riddle of the Universe. The arrangement of the vast material for this study of the wonders of life was modeled on that of the Riddle. Retained in the present volume is the division into larger and smaller sections and the synopses of the various chapters. Thus the whole biological content falls into four sections and twenty chapters"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).

The Monist

The Monist
Author: Paul Carus
Publisher:
Total Pages: 666
Release: 1899
Genre: Electronic journals
ISBN:

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Vols. 2 and 5 include appendices.