Sketches of a Conceptual History of Epigenesis
Résumé
Introduction: sketches of a conceptual history of epigenesis Antonine Nicoglou, Charles T. Wolfe Waddington’s epigenetics or the pictorial meetings of development and genetics Antonine Nicoglou Was Aristotle the ‘father’ of the epigenesis doctrine? Ina Goy Epigenetics: ambiguities and implications Karola Stotz, Paul Griffiths Wilhelm His and mechanistic approaches to development at the time of Entwicklungsmechanik Jean-Claude Dupont Theorizing epigenesis in a time of preexistence: From the end of the seventeenth century to the 1720s Angela Ferraro Epigenesis by experience: Romantic empiricism and non-Kantian biology Amanda Jo Goldstein Epigenesis and the rationality of nature in William Harvey and Margaret Cavendish Benjamin Goldberg Kant’s epigenesis: specificity and developmental constraints Boris Demarest
