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The Restless Clock A History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things Tick

By Jessica , Riskin

Book information

Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
2017
ISBN
9780226528267, 022652826X
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
5 MB (4937355 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2017-08-15 11:00:00

Description

Overview: Today, a scientific explanation is not meant to ascribe agency to natural phenomena: we would not say a rock falls because it seeks the center of the earth. Even for living things, in the natural sciences and often in the social sciences, the same is true. A modern botanist would not say that plants pursue sunlight. This has not always been the case, nor, perhaps, was it inevitable. Since the seventeenth century, many thinkers have made agency, in various forms, central to science.

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