Problem of Animal Generation in Early Modern Philosophy Book

1	The comparative study of animal development : William Harvey's Aristotelianism	21
2	Monsters, nature, and generation from the Renaissance to the early modern period : the emergence of medical thought	47
3	Descartes's experimental method and the generation of animals	65
4	Imagination and the problem of heredity in mechanist embryology	80
5	The soul as vehicle for genetic information : Gassendi's account of inheritance	103
6	Atoms and minds in Walter Charleton's theory of animal generation	124
7	Animal generation and substance in Sennert and Leibniz	147
8	Spontaneous and sexual generation in Conway's Principles	175
9	Malebranche on animal generation : preexistence and the microscope	194
10	Animal as category : Bayle's "Rorarius"	215
11	Explanation and demonstration in the Haller-Wolff debate	235
12	Soul power : Georg Ernst Stahl and the debate on generation	262
13	Charles Bonnet's neo-Leibnizian theory of organic bodies	285
14	Kant's early views on epigenesis : the role of Maupertuis	317
15	Blumenbach and Kant on mechanism and teleology in nature : the case of the formative drive	355
16	Kant and the speculative sciences of origins	375
17	Kant and evolution	402