Between holism and reductionism : organismic inheritance and neo-Kantian biological tradition in Britain and the USA, 1890-1940

Anglophone biology at the start of the twentieth century tends to be remembered as ambitiously reductionist. Yet it was also a time that saw the flourishing of a now largely forgotten Kantian tradition. Drawing on archival as well as printed sources, this dissertation charts the dissemination and ap...

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Main Author: Esposito, Maurizio
Other Authors: Radick, G.
Published: University of Leeds 2011
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.574507