Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Between Philosophy and Biology
- 1 The Actual: Mechanism, Finalism, Modality
- 2 The Virtual: Instantiation, Implication, Dynamics
- 3 A Discourse on Tendency
- 4 Individuality and Organisation
- 5 Finalism Inverted
- 6 Canalisation and Convergence
- Concluding Remarks and Future Directions
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Abbreviations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 October 2023
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Between Philosophy and Biology
- 1 The Actual: Mechanism, Finalism, Modality
- 2 The Virtual: Instantiation, Implication, Dynamics
- 3 A Discourse on Tendency
- 4 Individuality and Organisation
- 5 Finalism Inverted
- 6 Canalisation and Convergence
- Concluding Remarks and Future Directions
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
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- Bergson's Philosophy of BiologyVirtuality, Tendency and Time, pp. ix - xPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2022