Philosophy
Kant’s denial that natural science could explain the organism unintentionally brought the organism concept to the forefront of philosophic and scientific discourse in the 1790s and beyond. It also helped to shed light on those who were reimagining the forces at work in the living world.
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Philosophy
The history of Blumenbach's Conferva fontinalis essay, and why the alga should be considered a proto-model organism
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Philosophy
J. G. Herder's influence on C. F. Kielmeyer's influential talk, "On the Relations of the Organic Forces to One Another."
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Philosophy
A reassessment of Kant and Blumenbach's intellectual relationship, especially as it pertains to the history of biology.
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Philosophy
A reassessment of the beginning of biology, from Kant's third Critique to Treviranus's Biologie.
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Philosophy
An essay about the poet Goethe's discovery of the intermaxillary bone and its importance for the history of biology and environmental philosophy.
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Philosophy
Considerations of the Anthropocene and the German Romanticist F. W. J. Schelling
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Philosophy
In this new genealogy of posthumanism, I trace the concept back to the thinking of Neohegelian Max Stirner.
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