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Hans Adolf Eduard Driesch (28 October 1867 – 17 April 1941) was a German biologist and philosopher from Bad Kreuznach. He is most noted for his early experimental work in embryology and for his neo- vitalist philosophy of entelechy.
Hans Adolf Eduard Driesch (born Oct. 28, 1867, Bad Kreuznach, Prussia [now in Germany]—died April 16, 1941, Leipzig, Ger.) was a German experimental embryologist and philosopher who was the last great spokesman for vitalism, the theory that life cannot be explained as physical or chemical phenomena. Driesch was the son of a well-to-do Hamburg ...
Nov 1, 2007 · Hans Adolf Eduard Driesch (1867-1941) By: Mary E. Sunderland. Published: 2007-11-01. Although educated as a scientist who studied with both August Weismann and Ernst Heinrich Haeckel, Hans Adolf Eduard Driesch was first employed as a professor of philosophy and became a strong proponent of vitalism.
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Reacting to arguments advanced by G. Wolff, W. His, and A. Goette, Driesch early became skeptical of Haeckel's mechanistic interpretation of the organism. The work of Wilhelm Roux, in particular, induced him to explore the whole vitalism-mechanism issue. Driesch's first publication, Die mathematisch-mechanische Behandlung morphologischer Probleme d...
Although known primarily as one of the leading neovitalists, Driesch was also a critical realist and an "inductive" metaphysician. His system as a whole is developed most fully and most systematically in his Ordnungslehre and his Wirklichkeitslehre. In his Gifford Lectures Driesch had evolved the argument that the phenomena of ontogenetic developme...
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Der Vitalismus als Geschichte und als Lehre, Leipzig, 1905. Translated as The History and Theory of Vitalism. London, 1914. Rev. German ed., Geschichte des Vitalismus.Leipzig, 1922. The Science and Philosophy of the Organism, 2 vols. London: A. and C. Black, 1908. Translated into German as Philosophie des Organischen.Rev. ed., Leipzig, 1921. Zwei Vorträge zur Naturphilosophie.Leipzig, 1910. Die Biologie als selbständige Grundwissenschaft und das System der Biologie.Leipzig, 1911. Ordnungslehr...
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Child, C. M. "Driesch's Harmonic Equipotential Systems in Form-regulations." Biologisches Zentralblatt28 (1908). Fischel, A. Review of Driesch's Gifford Lectures, The Science and Philosophy of the Organism, Vol. I. Archiv für Entwicklungs-Mechanik26 (1908). Griffith, O. W. Review of The Problem of Individuality and The History and Theory of Vitalism. Hibbert Journal13. Haake, W. "Die Formphilosophie von Hans Driesch und das Wesen des Organismus." Biologisches Zentralblatt14 (1894). Heinichen,...
May 18, 2018 · Embryologist, professor of philosophy at the University of Leipzig, pioneer in many domains of science, and one of the most influential psychical investigators in Germany. Driesch was born in Bad Kreuznach, Germany, October 28, 1867, and had a distinguished academic and scientific career.
Jan 1, 2012 · Hans Adolf Eduard Driesch was a late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century philosopher and developmental biologist. In the spring of 1891 Driesch performed experiments using two-celled sea urchin embryos, the results of which challenged the then-accepted understanding of embryo development.
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May 14, 2018 · The German biologist and philosopher Hans Adolf Eduard Driesch (1867-1941) was a leading representative of vitalism in the 20th century. Hans Driesch was born at Bad Kreuznach on Oct. 28, 1867, into a prosperous middle-class family.
