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

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

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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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Name of the Author
Jessica
Riskin
Language
English
ISBN
9780226302928
Release date
2017

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