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The search for a new foundation of the order of things, that characterizes the period between Descartes and Kant, is closely related to three questions: What is an animal? What is a human? What is a machine? The various answers that have been given to the questions occur in a field of dynamic intera...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Cheung, Tobias
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Temas:
Philosophical anthropology > History.
Mechanism (Philosophy) > History.
Animals (Philosophy) > History.
Philosophy, Modern.
Anthropologie philosophique > Histoire.
Mécanisme (Philosophie) > Histoire.
Animaux (Philosophie) > Histoire.
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Humanism.
Animals (Philosophy)
Mechanism (Philosophy)
Philosophical anthropology
Philosophy, Modern
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Transitions and borders between animals, humans and machines, 1600-1800 : introduction / Tobias Cheung
  • Animals, humans, machines and thinking matter, 1690-1707 / Ann Thomson
  • Endowed molecules and emergent organization : the Maupertuis-Diderot debate / Charles T. Wolfe
  • Omnis fibra ex fibra : fibre economies in Bonnet's and Diderot's models of organic order / Tobias Cheung
  • Transhumane physiologie. Bilder und praktiken des reflexes (Thomas Willis, Robert Whytt, Marshall Hall) / Yvonne Wübben
  • Machina Machinarum. Die uhr als begriff and metapher zwischen 1450 und 1750 / Hanns-Peter Neumann.

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