HISTORY 3S03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Perichondrium, Aponeurosis, Periosteum
28 Dec 2016
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4 themes: relationship between mechanism and vitalism. Mechanism: reduction of life to physical and chemical forces. Vitalism: life is governed by forces only for living things. Forces cannot be reduced to physical laws. When there is strong favour of one idea, it usually swings the other way: relationship between teleology and empiricism. Believe in possibility of finding the reason for a function. Empiricism: knowledge obtained through pure observation without (cid:498)why(cid:499) search for purpose is no longer aim of scientific experiments. No we want to know (cid:494)how(cid:495) experiments confined to observation of. Speculation ancient history but they still did experiments! Both have a role is scientific investigation today! natural events or manipulated environments: speculation and experimentation, rise of physiology as a separate discipline. In antiquity, physician was also likely to be a philosopher. 19th century, physiology as a department was established. May see decline is this field as more specific ones appear (ex,
