TY  - BOOK
AU  - Posteraro,Tano
TI  - Bergson's Philosophy of Biology: Virtuality, Tendency and Time
SN  - 147448882X
AV  - B2430.B43 
U1  - 194 
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
KW  - Bergson, Henri,
KW  - Biology
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; Includes bibliographic references (pages [264]-292) and index; Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Between Philosophy and Biology -- Vitalism, psychology, and metaphysics -- Outline and overview -- 1. The Actual: Mechanism, Finalism, Modality -- Introduction -- Mechanism -- a. Adaptationism -- b. Developmental constraint -- Finalism -- a. Inner purposiveness -- b. The metaphysics of possibility -- Genetics -- a. Development -- b. Evolution -- Conclusion -- 2. The Virtual: Instantiation, Implication, Dynamics -- Introduction -- Instantiation -- a. Images -- b. Possibilities -- c. Affordances -- Implication -- a. Contraction; B. Themes -- c. Memory -- Dynamics -- a. Invention -- b. Affordances -- c. Performances -- Conclusion -- 3. A Discourse on Tendency -- Introduction -- Intellectual effort and �elan vital -- The development of an idea -- The theory of tendency -- The modal-mereological difference -- Virtuality and the dispositional modality -- Conclusion -- 4. Individuality and Organisation -- Introduction -- Spatialisation -- a. Isolation -- b. Externalisation -- c. Localisation -- Temporalisation -- a. Individuation -- b. Interpenetration -- c. Duration -- Conclusion -- 5. Finalism Inverted -- Introduction; Rhythm and reproduction -- Weismann redux -- Orthogenesis -- Vitalism in dispute -- a. Entelechy -- b. Individuality -- True finalism -- a. Externality -- b. Commonality -- c. Psychology -- Conclusion -- 6. Canalisation and Convergence -- Introduction -- Canalisation -- a. Images for development -- b. Vision and its apparatus -- c. The inside of indetermination -- Convergence -- a. Definitions -- b. Unity and complementarity -- c. Recollection and return -- d. Conservation and constraint -- Conclusion -- Concluding Remarks andFuture Directions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - Reconstructs Bergson's philosophy of biology in dialogue with the life sciences of today
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