From Aristotle to Darwin and back again :
Gilson, Etienne, 1884-1978.
From Aristotle to Darwin and back again : a journey in final causality, species, and evolution / Étienne Gilson ; translated by John Lyon ; [with a foreword by Christoph Schönborn]. - San Francisco : Ignatius Press, c2009. - xxii, 241 p. ; 23 cm.
Original French ed.: Étienne Gilson, D'Aristote à Darwin et retour... c1971, Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, Paris. Original English ed.: c1984, University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, Ind.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-232) and index.
Aristotelian prologue -- The mechanist objection -- Finality and evolution -- Bergsonism and teleology -- The limits of mechanism -- The constants of biophilosophy -- Appendix 1. Observations on the three kingdoms of nature / Linnaeus [in Latin] -- Appendix II. Darwin in search of species.
9781586171698 (pbk.) 1586171690 (pbk.)
2008939910
Biology--Philosophy.
Evolution (Biology)--Philosophy.
From Aristotle to Darwin and back again : a journey in final causality, species, and evolution / Étienne Gilson ; translated by John Lyon ; [with a foreword by Christoph Schönborn]. - San Francisco : Ignatius Press, c2009. - xxii, 241 p. ; 23 cm.
Original French ed.: Étienne Gilson, D'Aristote à Darwin et retour... c1971, Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, Paris. Original English ed.: c1984, University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, Ind.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-232) and index.
Aristotelian prologue -- The mechanist objection -- Finality and evolution -- Bergsonism and teleology -- The limits of mechanism -- The constants of biophilosophy -- Appendix 1. Observations on the three kingdoms of nature / Linnaeus [in Latin] -- Appendix II. Darwin in search of species.
9781586171698 (pbk.) 1586171690 (pbk.)
2008939910
Biology--Philosophy.
Evolution (Biology)--Philosophy.
