Purpose and Desire: What Makes Something Alive and Why Modern Darwinism Has Failed to Explain It by Turner, J. Scott
Purpose and Desire: What Makes Something Alive and Why Modern Darwinism Has Failed to Explain It by Turner, J. Scott

Purpose and Desire: What Makes Something Alive and Why Modern Darwinism Has Failed to Explain It

A professor, biologist, and physiologist argues that modern Darwinism's materialist and mechanistic biases have led to a...
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Purpose and Desire: What Makes Something Alive and Why Modern Darwinism Has Failed to Explain It by Turner, J. Scott

Purpose and Desire: What Makes Something Alive and Why Modern Darwinism Has Failed to Explain It

€33,53
Purpose and Desire: What Makes Something Alive and Why Modern Darwinism Has Failed to Explain It by Turner, J. Scott

Purpose and Desire: What Makes Something Alive and Why Modern Darwinism Has Failed to Explain It

€33,53
Author: J. Scott Turner
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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A professor, biologist, and physiologist argues that modern Darwinism's materialist and mechanistic biases have led to a scientific dead end, unable to define what life is--and only an openness to the qualities of "purpose and desire" will move the field forward.

Scott Turner contends. "To be scientists, we force ourselves into a Hobson's choice on the matter: accept intentionality and purposefulness as real attributes of life, which disqualifies you as a scientist; or become a scientist and dismiss life's distinctive quality from your thinking. I have come to believe that this choice actually stands in the way of our having a fully coherent theory of life."

Growing research shows that life's most distinctive quality, shared by all living things, is purpose and desire: maintain homeostasis to sustain life. In Purpose and Desire, Turner draws on the work of Claude Bernard, a contemporary of Darwin revered among physiologists as the founder of experimental medicine, to build on Bernard's "dangerous idea" of vitalism, which seeks to identify what makes "life" a unique phenomenon of nature. To further its quest to achieve a fuller understanding of life, Turner argues, science must move beyond strictly accepted measures that consider only the mechanics of nature.

A thoughtful appeal to widen our perspective of biology that is grounded in scientific evidence, Purpose and Desire helps us bridge the ideological evolutionary divide.



Author: J. Scott Turner
Publisher: HarperOne
Published: 09/11/2018
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780062651570

About the Author
Turner, J. Scott: - DR. J. SCOTT TURNER is a leading biologist and physiologist and professor of biology at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, in Syracuse, New York. His work has garnered attention in the New York Times Book Review, Science, Nature, American Scientist, National Geographic Online, NPR "Science Friday" and other leading media outlets. He is the author of two books with Harvard University Press: The Extended Organism: The Physiology of Animal Built Structures (2000) and The Tinkerer's Accomplice: How Design Emerges from Life Itself (2007).
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