Name: Approaches to Organic Form: Permutations in Science and Culture (en Inglés)
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Author: Burwick, F. R.
ISBN: 9789401082372

portada Approaches to Organic Form: Permutations in Science and Culture (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Springer

Autor

Burwick, F. R.

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

290

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

23.4 x 15.6 x 1.7 cm

Peso

0.44 kg.

ISBN13

9789401082372

Categorías

Filosofía de la ciencia
Influencia de la ciencia y la tecnología
Tradiciones y escuelas de pensamiento
Jardinería

Approaches to Organic Form: Permutations in Science and Culture (en Inglés)

Burwick, F. R. (Autor) · Springer · Tapa Blanda

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Frederick Burwick's modest but comprehensive and insightful intro- duction is preface enough to these sensible essays in the history and philosophical criticism of ideas. If we want to understand how some in- quiring and intelligent thinkers sought to go beyond mechanism and vitalism, we will find Burwick's labors of assembling others and reflect- ing on his own part to be as stimulating as anywhere to be found. And yet his initial cautious remark is right: 'approaches', not 'attainments'. The problems associated with clarifying 'matter' and 'form' are still beyond any consensus as to their solution. Even more do we recognize the many forms and meanings of 'form', and this is so even for 'organic form'. That wise scientist-philosopher-engineer Lancelot Law Whyte struggled in a place neighboring to Burwick's, and his essay of thirty years ago might be a scientist's preface to Burwick and his colleagues: see Whyte'S Accent on Form (N. Y., Harper, 1954) and his Symposium of 1951 Aspects of Form (London, Percy Lund Humphries 1951; and Indiana University Press 1961), itself arranged in honor of D' Arcy Thompson's classical monograph On Growth and Form. Philosophy and history of science must deal with these issues, and with the mixture of hard-headedness and imagination that they de- mand.