Robert Boyle and the Machine Metaphor
The seventeenth–century chemist and philosopher Robert Boyle argued that the world is like a clockwork machine. This led to the problems of the place of a Creator and of how one can explain the directed, “final–cause” nature of organisms. Boyle thought that he could wrap everything up in one neat pa...
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| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2002
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Zygon
Year: 2002, Volume: 37, Issue: 3, Pages: 581-596 |
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Robert Boyle
B machine metaphor B final cause B Natural Theology B Aristotle |
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