Books relevant to my research into the relationships between thermodynamics / statistical mechanics, biology, and teleological explanation. Might include books on biology and normativity as well as dialectics, given ethics has historically at times involved teleological reasoning and dialectics has historically been a means of understanding teleology albeit at a historical scale.
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The Entropy Law and the Economic Process by Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen
In the ultimate analysis man struggles for low entropy, and economic scarcity is the reflection of the Entropy Law, which …
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What Biological Functions Are and Why They Matter by Justin Garson
The biological functions debate is a perennial topic in the philosophy of science. In the first full-length account of the …
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Atomists: Leucippus and Democritus by Leucippus, Democritus
It may not be too much to say that all the work Western philosophers have done over the past two …
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Phenomenology of Spirit by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Perhaps one of the most revolutionary works of philosophy ever presented, The Phenomenology of Spirit is Hegel's 1807 work that …
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Physical Biology of the Cell by Rob Philips, Jane Kondev, Julie Theriot, and 1 other
"Physical Biology of the Cell maps the huge and complex landscape of cell and molecular biology from the distinct perspective …
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Intuition and Reflection in Self-Consciousness by Kitarō Nishida (SUNY Series in Philosophy)
Nishida Kitaro's reformulation of the major issues of Western philosophy from a Zen standpoint of "absolute nothingness" and "absolutely contradictory …
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Place and Dialectic by Kitarō Nishida
Place and Dialectic presents two essays by Nishida Kitaro, translated into English for the first time by John W.M. Krummel …
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Nietzsche, Naturalism, and Normativity by Christopher Janaway, Simon Robertson
Nietzsche, Naturalism, and Normativity comprises ten original essays which critically engage with one of the western canon's most controversial ethical …
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Critique of Dialectical Reason, Volume I by Jean-Paul Sartre
At the height of the Algerian war, Jean-Paul Sartre embarked on a fundamental reappraisal of his philosophical and political thought. …
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Negative Dialectics by Theodor W. Adorno
The major work and Adorno's culminating achievement. Negative Dialectics is a critique of the philosophies of Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger, …
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From Aristotle to Darwin and Back Again by Étienne Gilson
Darwin's theory of evolution remains controversial, even though most scientists, philosophers, and even theologians accept it, in some form, as …
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Teleology of Reason by Courtney D. Fugate
This work argues that teleological motives lie at the heart of Kant’s critical philosophy and that a precise analysis of …
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Freedom and Nature by Paul Ricœur (Northwestern University Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)
Le Volontaire et l'involontaire, presented below as Freedom and Nature: The Voluntary and the Involuntary, first appeared in Paris in …
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Phenomenology of Perception by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
First published in 1945, Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s monumental Phénoménologie de la perception signalled the arrival of a major new philosophical and …
