Uploaded December 2014 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
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This is just an introduction to a series of videos on the topic of philosophy of biology. Until now the major philosophies of biology have been vitalism or Cartesianism. Vitalism has been discarded already, because it postulated some occult vital force, vis vitalis, which made biology not a science. Many people still view living organisms, humans included, as machines. This is erroneous. I plan to show why biology is an autonomous science, how is it different from the physical sciences, and why a living organism is NOT a machine. Stay tuned. :)
Sorry for the delay.
This is just an introduction to a series of videos on the topic of philosophy of biology. Until now the major philosophies of biology have been vitalism or Cartesianism. Vitalism has been discarded already, because it postulated some occult vital force, vis vitalis, which made biology not a science. Many people still view living organisms, humans included, as machines. This is erroneous. I plan to show why biology is an autonomous science, how is it different from the physical sciences, and why a living organism is NOT a machine. Stay tuned. :)
