Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Vitalism" in Romanian language version.
A general history of the sciences initiated by Georges Cuvier, for example, lauded the Montpellier vitalists for their role in demolishing "crude mechanist explanations" of body function and thus opening the way to a refurbished mechanism, built on late-Enlightenment advances in the physical sciences, that eventually vanquished vitalism and cleared the high road to the modern life sciences.17
Vitalism has become so disreputable a belief in the last fifty years that no biologist alive today would want to be classified as a vitalist. Still, the remnants of vitalist thinking can be found in the work of Alistair Hardy, Sewall Wright, and Charles Birch, who seem to believe in some sort of nonmaterial principle in organisms.
And so to those of you who may be vitalists I would make this prophecy: what everyone believed yesterday, and you believe today, only cranks will believe tomorrow.reviewed at Johnston, Ian (). „Some Varieties of Secular Humanist Experience: Review of Books by Crick and Kurtz”. Malaspina University College [Vancouver Island University]. Arhivat din originalul de la . Accesat în . Crick's remark is cited and discussed in: Hein, Hilde (). „Molecular biology vs. organicism: The enduring dispute between mechanism and vitalism”. Synthese. 20 (2): 238–253. doi:10.1007/BF00413789. ISSN 0039-7857. who describes Crick's remark as "raising spectral red herrings".
And so to those of you who may be vitalists I would make this prophecy: what everyone believed yesterday, and you believe today, only cranks will believe tomorrow.reviewed at Johnston, Ian (). „Some Varieties of Secular Humanist Experience: Review of Books by Crick and Kurtz”. Malaspina University College [Vancouver Island University]. Arhivat din originalul de la . Accesat în . Crick's remark is cited and discussed in: Hein, Hilde (). „Molecular biology vs. organicism: The enduring dispute between mechanism and vitalism”. Synthese. 20 (2): 238–253. doi:10.1007/BF00413789. ISSN 0039-7857. who describes Crick's remark as "raising spectral red herrings".
Vitalism has fallen out of favour, though it had advocates even into the twentieth century.
And so to those of you who may be vitalists I would make this prophecy: what everyone believed yesterday, and you believe today, only cranks will believe tomorrow.reviewed at Johnston, Ian (). „Some Varieties of Secular Humanist Experience: Review of Books by Crick and Kurtz”. Malaspina University College [Vancouver Island University]. Arhivat din originalul de la . Accesat în . Crick's remark is cited and discussed in: Hein, Hilde (). „Molecular biology vs. organicism: The enduring dispute between mechanism and vitalism”. Synthese. 20 (2): 238–253. doi:10.1007/BF00413789. ISSN 0039-7857. who describes Crick's remark as "raising spectral red herrings".
Vitalism has fallen out of favour, though it had advocates even into the twentieth century.
And so to those of you who may be vitalists I would make this prophecy: what everyone believed yesterday, and you believe today, only cranks will believe tomorrow.reviewed at Johnston, Ian (). „Some Varieties of Secular Humanist Experience: Review of Books by Crick and Kurtz”. Malaspina University College [Vancouver Island University]. Arhivat din originalul de la . Accesat în . Crick's remark is cited and discussed in: Hein, Hilde (). „Molecular biology vs. organicism: The enduring dispute between mechanism and vitalism”. Synthese. 20 (2): 238–253. doi:10.1007/BF00413789. ISSN 0039-7857. who describes Crick's remark as "raising spectral red herrings".