Phillip R Sloan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1006659 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Phillip R Sloan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Phillip R |
| FAMILY NAME | Sloan |
| SIGNATURE | SLOAN P R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Notre Dame |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6587-6949 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 88 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Early Modern Biomechanism and Its Contemporary Relevance
Metaphysics and “vital” materialism
The philosophical innovations developed by German philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in opposition to Cartesian-style biomechanism, and the development of these views by Christian Wolff, offered the middle Enlightenment a complex theory of the organism grounded upon the introduction of the concept of dynamic “substance” that underlay the phenomenal conception of “matter.” This also carried with it a teleological and metaphysically grounded con…
Life Science and Naturphilosophie
The essence of race
The species problem and history
Eloges
How was teleology eliminated in early molecular biology
Understanding Purpose
Kant on the history of nature
Performing the Categories
Situating Kant's philosophical project in relation to the natural sciences of his day has been of concern to several scholars from both the history of science and the history of philosophy. Historians of philosophy have displayed an expanded awareness of, and interest in, the importance of the scientific context of the period in which Kant carried out his "Copernican" revolution. Most commonly among philosophers, this interest has been analyzed i…
The Sense of Sublimity
Natural History
Eighteenth-century natural history comprised a complex body of investigations that included local studies of botany and zoology, collection of natural artifacts, geographical and meteorological descriptions, geological study, landscape and gardening design, and other forms of inquiry conducted by an international group of practitioners. Deriving inspiration from the researches and speculations of Aristotle, Dioscorides, Theophrastus, Pliny, and V…
The Gaze of Natural History
To understand the full importance of the revolution in the human sciences encompassed in the comment by Comte de Buffon, this chapter focuses on the concept of a “natural history” of the human species. To develop these claims, it initially explores the origins of the idea of a “natural history” of man in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and displays the extension of this in the systematic work of the Swedish natural historian …
Essay Review
Roger (J.) ecrivit la biographie du Comte de Buffon et le place parmi les plus celebres philosophes naturalistes, entre Aristote et Darwin
Discovering Complexity
Michel Foucault . David R. Shumway
Eloge
Essay Review
The Red Notebook of Charles Darwin. Sandra Herbert
From Natural History to the History of Nature
Das Ende der Naturgeschichte
Ontogeny and Phylogeny
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Buffon, German Biology, and the Historical Interpretation of Biological Species
The entry of time and history into biological systems of classification is perhaps the single most significant development in the history of biological systematics in the modern era. Darwin's claiming that descent is ‘... the hidden bond of connexion which naturalists have been seeking under the term of the natural system’, rather than seeing the answer in the multitude of previous attempts to resolve the problem in terms of morphological affinit…
La raison et la vie
Descartes, the sceptics, and the rejection of vitalism in seventeenth-century physiology
The Buffon-Linnaeus Controversy
Buffon, German Biology, and the Historical Interpretation of Biological Species
The entry of time and history into biological systems of classification is perhaps the single most significant development in the history of biological systematics in the modern era. Darwin's claiming that descent is ‘... the hidden bond of connexion which naturalists have been seeking under the term of the natural system’, rather than seeing the answer in the multitude of previous attempts to resolve the problem in terms of morphological affinit…
The Idea of Racial Degeneracy in Buffon's Histoire Naturelle
The Idea of Racial Degeneracy in Buffon's Histoire Naturelle* Phillip R. Sloan I In THE HISTORY of eighteenth-century racial speculation, Buf fon's Histoire naturelle, generate et particuliere occupies a posi tion of paradoxical ambiguity. Supplying the Enlightenment with the first fully articulated analysis of man as a natural and primar ily zoological phenomenon, a world-wide species whose "natural history" was to be studied in the same term…
Kant on the history of nature
The essence of race
How was teleology eliminated in early molecular biology
The Sense of Sublimity
Essay Review
Roger (J.) ecrivit la biographie du Comte de Buffon et le place parmi les plus celebres philosophes naturalistes, entre Aristote et Darwin
Descartes, the sceptics, and the rejection of vitalism in seventeenth-century physiology
The Idea of Racial Degeneracy in Buffon's Histoire Naturelle
The Idea of Racial Degeneracy in Buffon's Histoire Naturelle* Phillip R. Sloan I In THE HISTORY of eighteenth-century racial speculation, Buf fon's Histoire naturelle, generate et particuliere occupies a posi tion of paradoxical ambiguity. Supplying the Enlightenment with the first fully articulated analysis of man as a natural and primar ily zoological phenomenon, a world-wide species whose "natural history" was to be studied in the same term…
The Buffon-Linnaeus Controversy
Descartes, the sceptics, and the rejection of vitalism in seventeenth-century physiology
La raison et la vie
Buffon, German Biology, and the Historical Interpretation of Biological Species
The entry of time and history into biological systems of classification is perhaps the single most significant development in the history of biological systematics in the modern era. Darwin's claiming that descent is ‘... the hidden bond of connexion which naturalists have been seeking under the term of the natural system’, rather than seeing the answer in the multitude of previous attempts to resolve the problem in terms of morphological affinit…
Ontogeny and Phylogeny
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
From Natural History to the History of Nature
Das Ende der Naturgeschichte
The Red Notebook of Charles Darwin. Sandra Herbert
Essay Review
Michel Foucault . David R. Shumway
Eloge
Essay Review
Roger (J.) ecrivit la biographie du Comte de Buffon et le place parmi les plus celebres philosophes naturalistes, entre Aristote et Darwin
Discovering Complexity
The Gaze of Natural History
To understand the full importance of the revolution in the human sciences encompassed in the comment by Comte de Buffon, this chapter focuses on the concept of a “natural history” of the human species. To develop these claims, it initially explores the origins of the idea of a “natural history” of man in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and displays the extension of this in the systematic work of the Swedish natural historian …
Natural History
Eighteenth-century natural history comprised a complex body of investigations that included local studies of botany and zoology, collection of natural artifacts, geographical and meteorological descriptions, geological study, landscape and gardening design, and other forms of inquiry conducted by an international group of practitioners. Deriving inspiration from the researches and speculations of Aristotle, Dioscorides, Theophrastus, Pliny, and V…
The Sense of Sublimity
Performing the Categories
Situating Kant's philosophical project in relation to the natural sciences of his day has been of concern to several scholars from both the history of science and the history of philosophy. Historians of philosophy have displayed an expanded awareness of, and interest in, the importance of the scientific context of the period in which Kant carried out his "Copernican" revolution. Most commonly among philosophers, this interest has been analyzed i…
Kant on the history of nature
Understanding Purpose
How was teleology eliminated in early molecular biology
Eloges
The species problem and history
The essence of race
Metaphysics and “vital” materialism
The philosophical innovations developed by German philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in opposition to Cartesian-style biomechanism, and the development of these views by Christian Wolff, offered the middle Enlightenment a complex theory of the organism grounded upon the introduction of the concept of dynamic “substance” that underlay the phenomenal conception of “matter.” This also carried with it a teleological and metaphysically grounded con…
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