BIOL 446 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Peripheral Nervous System, Epicurus, Empiricism
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Biol 446 history and philosophy of biological sciences. Excellent web source of information on epicurus. Includes all the extant writings of epicurus as well as writings about him and his philosophy. Lived in a time with 2 greatest philosophies in biology. It was at ta time when biologists saw as adaptation were just stories. Assignment 1 due on tuesday, 2 february 2016. Use words in common language and he used it in a particular way. Whytehead- god he really thinks that the concept of god is important to his ideas. Important to understand each word that he uses. He will get us to read darwin to understand him and neo-darwinist. He was very critical of his own assumptions. He used dialectical thinking in his development. Lucretius on the nature of things (chapters 4&5 importance to biology) is about him. Epicurus born in samos at around 341 270 bc.
