Project Gutenberg 2020-03-23 Public domain in the USA. 155 Johnstone, James 1870 1932 a14003023 The philosophy of biology The conceptual world -- The organism as a mechanism -- The activities of the organism -- The vital impetus -- The individual and the species -- Transformism -- The meaning of evolution -- The organic and the inorganic -- Appendix: Mathematical and physical notions. Produced by Thiers Halliwell, Richard Hulse, Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "The Philosophy of Biology" by James Johnstone is a scientific publication written in the early 20th century. This work explores the philosophical implications and foundations of biological science, particularly focusing on concepts like consciousness, perception, and the nature of living organisms. Johnstone aims to develop a deeper understanding of biology through the lens of philosophy, suggesting that current biological theories may need to reassess their foundational philosophies as scientific knowledge evolves. At the start of the text, the author introduces the interplay between perception and the understanding of the biological organism's existence, arguing that consciousness shapes how organisms perceive and interact with their environment. Johnstone discusses the limitations of purely mechanistic explanations in biology, emphasizing that biological functions cannot be fully understood through the same frameworks that apply to physical phenomena. He sets the stage for a philosophical discussion on the nature of life, suggesting that much like physics evolved, biology too must evolve to grasp the complexities of life beyond mechanistic interpretations. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 44.9 (College-level). Difficult to read. en Biology QH Text Category: Science - Biology Category: Philosophy & Ethics 869285 2025-07-24T11:49:17.339513 text/html 834305 2024-10-17T17:02:50 text/html 1345712 2025-07-24T11:49:31.649388 application/epub+zip 1355023 2025-07-24T11:49:21.194449 application/epub+zip 365317 2025-07-24T11:49:19.160519 application/epub+zip 1569236 2025-07-24T11:49:38.378382 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1482663 2025-07-24T11:49:29.311415 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 497568 2022-09-27T21:10:13.988976 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 743071 2025-07-24T11:49:15.723471 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 723081 2024-10-17T17:02:50 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16539 2025-07-24T11:49:38.551347 application/rdf+xml 12691 2025-07-24T11:49:19.313465 image/jpeg 1999 2025-07-24T11:49:19.239453 image/jpeg 1311707 2025-07-24T11:49:17.504464 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia