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The Origin of Life: Philosophical Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Michael Ruse

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1997
Tongue
English
Weight
153 KB
Volume
187
Category
Article
ISSN
0022-5193

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✦ Synopsis

In this paper I consider the work which has been done on The Origin of Life in the last 100 years. It is my argument that a great deal of the underpinning of discussions on this topic have been more philosophical than anything based in brute experience or theory.

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