{"product_id":"life-sciences-in-early-modern-philosophy-9780199987313","title":"Life Sciences in Early Modern Philosophy","description":"The present volume advances a recent historiographical turn towards the intersection of early modern philosophy and the life sciences by bringing together many of its leading scholars to present the contributions of important but often neglected figures, such as Ralph Cudworth, Nehemiah Grew, Francis Glisson, Hieronymus Fabricius ab Aquapendente, Georg Ernst Stahl, Juan Gallego de la Serna, Nicholas Hartsoeker, Henry More, as well as more familiar figures such as Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Malebranche, and Kant. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe contributions to this volume are organized in accordance with the particular problems that living beings and living nature posed for early modern philosophy: the problem of life in general, whether it constitutes something ontologically distinct at all, or whether it can ultimately be exhaustively comprehended \"in the same manner as the rest\"; the problem of the structure of living beings, by which we understand not just bare anatomy but also physiological processes such as irritability, motion, digestion, and so on; the problem of generation, which might be included alongside digestion and other vital processes, were it not for the fact that it presented such an exceptional riddle to philosophers since antiquity, namely, the riddle of coming-into-being out of -- apparent or real -- non-being; and, finally, the problem of natural order.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohad Nachtomy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e OUP Us\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/06\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199987313\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOhad Nachtomy\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor at Bar-Ilan University and at Fordham University. He is the author of \u003cem\u003ePossibility, Agency, and Individuality in Leibniz's Metaphysics \u003c\/em\u003e(2007); \"Leibniz on Nested Individuals\"(\u003cem\u003eBJHP\u003c\/em\u003e 2007); \"Leibniz and the Logic of Life\"(\u003cem\u003eStudia Leibnitiana\u003c\/em\u003e 2010); \"Leibniz on Artificial and Natural Machines\" in \u003cem\u003eMachines of Nature and Corporeal Substances in Leibniz\u003c\/em\u003e (co-edited with Justin Smith) (2010); and \"A Tale Of Two Thinkers, One Meeting, and Three Degrees Of Infinity: Leibniz And Spinoza in 1675-78\" (\u003cem\u003eBJHP\u003c\/em\u003e 2011). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJustin E. H. Smith\u003c\/strong\u003e is university professor of the history and philosophy of science at the University of Paris 7. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eDivine Machines: Leibniz and the Sciences of Life \u003c\/em\u003e(2011) and of the forthcoming \u003cem\u003eNature, Human Nature, and Human Difference: Early Modern Philosophy and the Concept of Race\u003c\/em\u003e. He has also recently edited and translated, with François Duchesneau, Georg Ernst Stahl's \u003cem\u003eNegotium otiosum\u003c\/em\u003e (forthcoming).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"OUP Us","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44251228536947,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":268.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_f38e4abd-a68b-4d00-b7df-91eef8561789.jpg?v=1769348581","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/life-sciences-in-early-modern-philosophy-9780199987313","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}