| 作者介绍：Justin Smith Justin Smith is assistant professor of philosophy at Concordia University in Montreal. A scholar of early modern philosophy, he has contributed to The Leibniz Review, History of Philosophy Quarterly, and the British Journal for the History of Philosophy. |
| List of Contributors page Introduction Ⅰ. THE DAWNING OF A NEW ERA 1.The Comparative Study of Animal Development: William Harvey’s Aristotelianism 2.Monsters, Nature, and Generation from the Renaissance to the Early Modern Period: The Emergence of Medical Thought Ⅱ. THE CARTESIAN PROGRAM 3.Descartes’s Experimental Method and the Generation of Animals 4.Imagination and the Problem of Heredity in Mechanist Embryology Ⅲ. THE GASSENDIAN ALTERNATIVE 5.The Soul as Vehicle for Genetic Information: Gassendi’s Account of Inheritance 6.Atoms and Minds in Walter Charleton’s Theory of Animal Generation Ⅳ. SECOND-WAVE MECHANISM AND THE RETURN OF ANIMAL SOULS, 1650–1700 7.Animal Generation and Substance in Sennert and Leibniz 8.Spontaneous and Sexual Generation in Conway’s Principles 9.Malebranche on Animal Generation: Preexistence and the Microscope 10.Animal as Category: Bayle’s “Rorarius” Ⅴ. BETWEEN EPIGENESIS AND PREEXISTENCE: THE DEBATE INTENSIFIES, 1700–1770 11.Explanation and Demonstration in the Haller-Wolff Debate 12.Soul Power: Georg Ernst Stahl and the Debate on Generation 13.Charles Bonnet’s Neo-Leibnizian Theory of Organic Bodies Ⅵ. KANT AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES ON DEVELOPMENT AND THE PROBLEM OF ORGANIZED MATTER 14.Kant’s Early Views on Epigenesis: The Role of Maupertuis 15.Blumenbach and Kant on Mechanism and Teleology in Nature: The Case of the Formative Drive Ⅶ. KANT AND THE BEGINNINGS OF EVOLUTION 16.Kant and the Speculative Sciences of Origins 17.Kant and Evolution Bibliography Index |
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