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Under the subsection "Life on Earth," briefly handles "Mechanism and vitalism," endorsing strongly the victorious mechanist position that ". . . all organisms are made of atoms and nothing else . . ." and can be explained in detail and "solely by physics and chemistry" (894-95). See in this Category of the Wiki, R. Descartes[http://www.clockworks2.org/wiki/index.php?title=Descartes,_Réne_(mechanism:_cosmological_,_biological)]; T. Hobbes; D. Hofstadter; J. R. Munson and R. C. York; D. S. Robinson; J. C. J. Smart; B. de Spinoza; S. E. Toulmin; R. A. Watson[http://www.clockworks2.org/wiki/index.php?title=Cartesianism_(Britannica_article)]; R. S. Westfall. Note well that CS was important in the late 20th c. for gently spreading a materialist and "mechanist" interpretation of nature and the human condition[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan], with such views in his Cosmos TV shows updated and repeated in the 21st c. by Neil deGrasse Tyson.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmos:_A_Spacetime_Odyssey] | Under the subsection "Life on Earth," briefly handles "Mechanism and vitalism," endorsing strongly the victorious mechanist position that ". . . all organisms are made of atoms and nothing else . . ." and can be explained in detail and "solely by physics and chemistry" (894-95). See in this Category of the Wiki, R. Descartes[http://www.clockworks2.org/wiki/index.php?title=Descartes,_Réne_(mechanism:_cosmological_,_biological)]; T. Hobbes; D. Hofstadter; J. R. Munson and R. C. York; D. S. Robinson; J. C. J. Smart; B. de Spinoza; S. E. Toulmin; R. A. Watson[http://www.clockworks2.org/wiki/index.php?title=Cartesianism_(Britannica_article)]; R. S. Westfall. Note well that CS was important in the late 20th c. for gently spreading a materialist and "mechanist" interpretation of nature and the human condition[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan], with such views in his Cosmos TV shows updated and repeated in the 21st c. by Neil deGrasse Tyson.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmos:_A_Spacetime_Odyssey] | ||
Latest revision as of 13:36, 1 November 2014
Sagan, Carl. "Life." Encyclopaedia Britannica: Macropaedia. 1974.
Under the subsection "Life on Earth," briefly handles "Mechanism and vitalism," endorsing strongly the victorious mechanist position that ". . . all organisms are made of atoms and nothing else . . ." and can be explained in detail and "solely by physics and chemistry" (894-95). See in this Category of the Wiki, R. Descartes[1]; T. Hobbes; D. Hofstadter; J. R. Munson and R. C. York; D. S. Robinson; J. C. J. Smart; B. de Spinoza; S. E. Toulmin; R. A. Watson[2]; R. S. Westfall. Note well that CS was important in the late 20th c. for gently spreading a materialist and "mechanist" interpretation of nature and the human condition[3], with such views in his Cosmos TV shows updated and repeated in the 21st c. by Neil deGrasse Tyson.[4]
