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Beliefs and Biology

Theories of Life and Living

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  • © 2003

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Authors:
  1. Jennifer Trusted

    1. Exeter University, UK
      Open University, UK

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Primitive Beliefs, Classical Theories, Early Practices

    • Jennifer Trusted
    Pages 1-19

  3. From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance: from scholasticism to the study of nature

    • Jennifer Trusted
    Pages 20-37

  4. The Appeal to Physical Explanations

    • Jennifer Trusted
    Pages 38-52

  5. Interactions — Fact and Theory

    • Jennifer Trusted
    Pages 53-74

  6. Arguments and Counter-arguments: The Creation

    • Jennifer Trusted
    Pages 75-99

  7. Idealism and Materialism

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    Pages 100-122

  8. Natural Selection and Progress

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    Pages 123-148

  9. Secular Beliefs — Suppositions and Presuppositions

    • Jennifer Trusted
    Pages 149-177

  10. Molecular Biology and a New Teleology

    • Jennifer Trusted
    Pages 178-189

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 190-212
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About this book

`...interesting, instructive and eminently readable.' - Mary J. Seller, The Expository Times The book shows how development in the biological sciences has been influenced by ethical, religious, social and philosophical assumptions as to the nature of life and mankind's place in the world. These beliefs have been presupposed in experimental investigations as well as in biological theories. The book is not intended as a comprehensive history of biology, rather some of that history is used as evidence of external influences. To this end there are accounts of past investigations (from the time of Aristotle to the present day).

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  • Exeter University, UK

    Jennifer Trusted

  • Open University, UK

    Jennifer Trusted

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