The Restless Clock: A History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things Tick by Jessica Riskin

The Restless Clock: A History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things Tick

Jessica Riskin

544 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy science informative slow-paced
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Today, a scientific explanation is not meant to ascribe agency to natural phenomena: we would not say a rock falls because it seeks the center of the earth. Even for living things, in the natural sciences and often in the social sciences, the same...

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