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