The Biological Imperatives
Author | : Allan Chase |
Publisher | : Penguin Group |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780140217575 |
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Author | : Allan Chase |
Publisher | : Penguin Group |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780140217575 |
Author | : Allan Chase |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 399 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Emma Willcox |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Art, Modern |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Allan Chase |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Charles H. M. Beck |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2021-09-03 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1664186743 |
The Evolutionary Imperative provides a unifying perspective on the evolution of the universe in all its physical and biological detail, with a call to action for redirecting the evolutionary trajectory of human society. The book’s thesis is that change is inevitable, driven by resolution of energy gradients through the Principle of Least Action and the Second Law of Thermodynamics. This energy dissipation model of the evolutionary imperative accounts for all the organization of matter and energy that has ever come about, and offers a transcendent view of the world, and the place and fate of the human species within it.
Author | : Charles H. M. Beck |
Publisher | : CCB Publishing |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2016-12-24 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1771432985 |
Author | : Colin Klein |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015-07-31 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0262029707 |
A novel theory of pain, according to which pains are imperatives—commands issued by the body, ordering you to protect the injured part. In What the Body Commands, Colin Klein proposes and defends a novel theory of pain. Klein argues that pains are imperative; they are sensations with a content, and that content is a command to protect the injured part of the body. He terms this view “imperativism about pain,” and argues that imperativism can account for two puzzling features of pain: its strong motivating power and its uninformative nature. Klein argues that the biological purpose of pain is homeostatic; like hunger and thirst, pain helps solve a challenge to bodily integrity. It does so by motivating you to act in ways that help the body recover. If you obey pain's command, you get better (in ordinary circumstances). He develops his account to handle a variety of pain phenomena and applies it to solve a number of historically puzzling cases. Klein's intent is to defend the imperativist view in a pure form—without requiring pain to represent facts about the world. Klein presents a model of imperative content showing that intrinsically motivating sensations are best understood as imperatives, and argues that pain belongs to this class. He considers the distinction between pain and suffering; explains how pain motivates; addresses variations among pains; and offers an imperativist account of maladaptive pains, pains that don't appear to hurt, masochism, and why pain feels bad.
Author | : Donna Jeanne Haraway |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781556434747 |
Acclaimed theorist and social scientist Donna Jeanne Haraway uses the work of pioneering developmental biologists Ross G. Harrison, Joseph Needham, and Paul Weiss as a springboard for a discussion about a shift in developmental biology from a vitalism-mechanism framework to organicism. The book deftly interweaves Thomas Kuhn's concept of paradigm change into this wide-ranging analysis, emphasizing the role of model, analogy, and metaphor in the paradigm and arguing that any truly useful theoretical system in biology must have a central metaphor.
Author | : Philip Handler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 968 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Biology |
ISBN | : |
A survey of the current status of all the life sciences sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences. Has sections on the biology of behaviour, ecology, diversity of life, digital computers and the life sciences, feeding mankind, environmental health, renewable resources, etc.
Author | : Hans Jonas |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0226405974 |
Hans Jonas here rethinks the foundations of ethics in light of the awesome transformations wrought by modern technology: the threat of nuclear war, ecological ravage, genetic engineering, and the like. Though informed by a deep reverence for human life, Jonas's ethics is grounded not in religion but in metaphysics, in a secular doctrine that makes explicit man's duties toward himself, his posterity, and the environment. Jonas offers an assessment of practical goals under present circumstances, ending with a critique of modern utopianism.