Vitalism and the Scientific Image in Post-Enlightenment Life Science, 1800-2010

Charles T. Wolfe (1)

1 IHPST - Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques

Table of Contents 0.Introduction (SN/CW) I. Revisiting vitalist themes in 19th-century science 1.Guido Giglioni (Warburg Institute) – Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and the Place of Irritability 2.in the History of Life and Death 3.Joan Steigerwald (York) – Rethinking Organic Vitality in Germany at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century 4.Juan Rigoli (Geneva) –The “Novel of Medicine” 5.Sean Dyde (Cambridge) – Life and the Mind in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Somaticism in the Wake of Phrenology. II. Twentieth century debates on vitalism in science and philosophy 6.Brian Garrett (McMaster) – Vitalism versus Emergent Materialism 7.Christophe Malaterre (Paris) – Life as an Emergent Phenomenon: from an Alternative to Vitalism to an Alternative to Reductionism 8.Sebastian Normandin (Montreal) – Wilhelm Reich: Vitalism and Its Discontents 9.Chiara Elettra Ferrario (Wellington) and Luigi Corsi (Pisa) – Kurt Goldstein: Vitalism and the Organismic Approach 10.Giuseppe Bianco (Paris/Warwick) – The Origins of Canguilhem’s “Vitalism”. Against the Anthropology of Irritation III. Vitalism and contemporary biological developments 11.William Bechtel (UCSD) — Dynamic Mechanistic Explanation: Addressing the Vitalists’ Objections to Mechanistic Science 12. John Dupré and Maureen O’Malley (Exeter) – Varieties of living things: Life at the intersection of lineage and metabolism 13.J. Scott Turner (Syracuse) – Homeostasis and the forgotten vitalist roots of adaptation

Mots clés: Vitalisme

Domaines: Histoire, Philosophie et Sociologie des sciences

Charles T. Wolfe (Dir.). Vitalism and the Scientific Image in Post-Enlightenment Life Science, 1800-2010. Charles Wolfe & Sebastian Normandin. Springer, 2013, collection History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences, 978-94-007-2445-7. ⟨10.1007/978-94-007-2445-7⟩. ⟨hal-01233158⟩