The Philosophy of Biology, by James Johnstone, D.Sc
by James Johnstone
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About this eBook
- Author
- Johnstone, James, 1870-1932
- Title
- The philosophy of biology
- Credits
- Produced by Thiers Halliwell, Richard Hulse, Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- QH: Science: Natural history
- Subject
- Biology
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 61663
- Release Date
- March 23, 2020
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE PHILOSOPHY OF BIOLOGY — INTRODUCTION
- 2.CONTENTS
- 3.CHAPTER I THE CONCEPTUAL WORLD
- 4.CHAPTER II THE ORGANISM AS A MECHANISM
- 5.CHAPTER III THE ACTIVITIES OF THE ORGANISM
- 6.CHAPTER IV THE VITAL IMPETUS
- 7.CHAPTER V THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE SPECIES
- 8.CHAPTER VI TRANSFORMISM
- 9.CHAPTER VII THE MEANING OF EVOLUTION
- 10.CHAPTER VIII THE ORGANIC AND THE INORGANIC
- 11.APPENDIX MATHEMATICAL AND PHYSICAL NOTIONS 35 — INFINITY — FUNCTIONALITY — RATE OF VARIATION — THE NOTION OF THE LIMIT — FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS AND PROBABILITY — MATTER — MASS — INERTIA — FORCE — ENERGY — POTENTIAL ENERGY — ISOTHERMAL AND ADIABATIC CHANGES — THE CARNOT ENGINE — THE CARNOT POSITIVE CYCLE — THE CARNOT NEGATIVE CYCLE — REVERSIBILITY — ENTROPY — AVAILABLE AND UNAVAILABLE ENERGY — INERT MATTER
- 12.INDEX — FOOTNOTES:
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