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The restless clock: a history of the centuries-long argument over what makes living things tick
The restless clock: a history of the centuries-long argument over what makes living things tick
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Riskin, Jessica
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The University of Chicago Press
Publication Date
2016.
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English
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Introduction: Huxley's joke, or the problem of agency in nature and science
1. Machines in the garden
2. Descartes among the machines
3. The passive telescope or the restless clock
4. The first androids
5. The adventures of Mr. Machine
6. Dilemmas of a self-organizing machine
7. Darwin between the machines
8. The mechanical egg and the intelligent egg
9. Outside in
10. History matters.
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Biowissenschaften
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Life (Biology)
Mechanism (Philosophy)
Mechanismus
Philosophy
PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body
Science
Science & Technology
Science -- Philosophy
SCIENCE / History
SCIENCE / Life Sciences
SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects
Vitalism
Vitalisme
Vitalisme (filosofie)
Vitalismus
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Riskin, Jessica
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9780226302928
9780226303086
022630292
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