Chance and necessity
An Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6565353 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jacques Monod |
| Year | 1971 |
| Pages | 198 |
| Publication date | 1971-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Reviewed by | Chance and Necessity: An Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology, Bertram Morris, 1972 |
| Venue | Chance and necessity (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Knopf (PUBLISHER) |
| Open Library | OL4582041M |
| ISBN | 9780394466156 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 79 |
A philosophical statement whose explicit intention is to sweep away as both false and dangerous the 'animist' conception of man that has dominated virtually all Western world views from those of primitive cultures to those of dialectical materialists. Monod bases his argument on the evidence of modern biology, which shows, indisputably, that man is the product of chance genetic mutation. He draws upon what we now know about genetic structure (and on what we can theorize) to suggest an entirely new way of looking at ourselves. He argues that objective scientific knowledge, the only knowledge we can rely on, denies the concepts of destiny or evolutionary purpose that underlie traditional philosophies; and he contends that the persistence of those concepts is responsible for the intensifying schizophrenia of a world that accepts, and lives by, the fruits of science while refusing to face its momentous moral implications"--Publisher description
Capítulo 6. Cibersemiótica
The Illusion of Control
Chance as a value for artificial intelligence
Beyond Eddington’s Argument
Noise and Synthetic Biology
The Role of Scientism in Myth-making for the Anthropocene
The Return of the Organism as a Fundamental Explanatory Concept in Biology
Planetary mobilities
Cybersemiotics and the reasoning powers of the universe
The concept of mechanism in biology
Models and the mosaic of scientific knowledge. The case of immunology
Darbishire expands his vision of heredity from Mendelian genetics to inherited memory
Organisms≠Machines
On the philosophy of cosmology
Bioinformational diplomacy
Diskuse o „hypotéze babiček“
Gouvernement, économie et biopolitique 1
Anthropocentrism and the Argument from Gaia Theory
Cybernetics, Information, Life
Human Heredity Now and in the Future
From Code to the Everyday
Flattening the World
On Distinguishing Functional Ecology and Evolution in Cultural Theory
The environment as a life support system
An appraisal of the best known erythrocytic genetic adaptations of man to malaria and its implications
The Gradual Transition from the Non-Living to the Living
A controversy about chance and the origins of life
Embodied cognition and the imaging of bio-pathologies
Human germline editing
Anoedipal Fiction
Critical Review of Mary Midgley's Intelligent Design Theory and Other Ideological Problems
The Ethics of Science
Geocentrism vs genocentrism
As perceived, not as known
The ‘ethic of knowledge’ and responsible science
The dialectics of the sacred cow
The Roots of Guilt and Responsibility in Shusaku Endo's The Sea and Poison
Evolutionary Narratives and Ecological Ethics
The representation, quantification, and nature of genetic information
Life and living in wonderworld
Stanley L. Jaki's Critique of Physics
Conditions and Limitations of Prediction-Making in Biology
Quantum Indeterminism and Evolutionary Biology
Viral Architecture, Viral Landscapes
Dynamic Development and Mature Autonomy
Rethinking Romanticism with Spinoza
Some steineresque comments, and monodian asides on geography in Europe
Urban planning
Naivety in the molecular life sciences
World politics towards the 21st century
Teleology and Final Causation in Aristotle and in Contemporary Science
Outer Space
Ecology, Evolution, and the Search for Cultural Origins
Thresholds and breakpoints in ecosystems with a multiplicity of stable states
Dossier
Our last Luciferian pact
Semiopoesis
Culture and the much-more-than-human
Biosignature, Technosignature, Event
Narrative Complexity and the Case of Pfitz
On the Nature of Coincidental Events
Equilibrium as compatibility of plans
Ecology and Evolution in Cultural Anthropology
Is Evolution a Chance Process
Scientific and Theological Responses for Evolution and Biological Complexity
Crying Hegel in Art History
Bergson’s philosophical method
Conditions for Social Responsibility
Chance, Necessity, and Mode of Production
Philosophy and the Natural Environment
Molecular Approaches to Evolution
The Theory of Cultural and Social Selection
The Penultimate Curiosity
Evolution, selection and cognition
Integrative levels and 'the Great Evolution
Molecular Biology in the Work of Deleuze and Guattari
Por uma lingüística crítica
Theories of the transcendent
Themes, Genres and Orders of Legitimation in the Consolidation of New Scientific Disciplines
| Unique citing works | 79 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,49 |
| Citation span | 1973 - 2024 (52) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 28 |