Author: Grene, Marjorie.
Title: The understanding of nature : essays in the philosophy of biology.
Description: Dordrecht : D. Reidel, 1975. Hardcover. No dustjacket. xii,374 pp. (Synthese 66; Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 23). Library stamps. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. - No student or colleague of Marjorie Grene will miss her incisive presence in these papers on the study and nature of living nature, and we believe the new reader will quickly join the stimulating discussion and critique which Professor Grene steadily provokes. For years she has worked with equally sure knowledge in the classical domain of philosophy and in modern epistemological inquiry, equally philosopher of science and metaphysician. Moreover, she has the deeply sensible notion that she should be a critically intelligent learner as much as an imaginatively original thinker, and as a result she has brought insightful expository readings of other philosophers and scientists to her own work. We were most fortunate that Marjorie Grene was willing to spend a full semester of a recent leave here in Boston, and we have on other occasions sought her participation in our colloquia and elsewhere ISBN 9789027704627.

Keywords: PHILOSOPHY, philosophy philosophy of science