HIS-3464 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Brown Dog Affair, Animal Rights, Natural Philosophy
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Aristotle helps establish biology in the ancient world. Natural history has been established: linnaeus, buffon, cuvier. The chain of being vs. darwin"s tree of life: haeckel"s recapitulation theory: mixes the two. Morphology is basically the study of structure or form. There was a shift from natural history to morphology. Focused on cell theory: all living things composed of cells. New understanding through vivisection: experiments on animals (usually while living) Anti-vivisection movement: brown dog affair in england (early 1900s, argued that vivisection was bad, immoral and challenged humanity. Huxley wants to create a field of biology. Gain credibility for the field of biology: chemistry. Following chemical revolution : started to experiment more. Descartes and the mechanical philosophy: they want to change it to a more mechanical philosophy. What it causes is an erosion of vitalism: there is something more than just the machine, there is something that creates the machine: from mother nature to the clockmaker.
