@misc{Lexicon of Arguments, title = {Quotation from: Lexicon of Arguments – Concepts - Ed. Martin Schulz, 29 Mar 2024}, author = {Mayr,Ernst}, subject = {Physicalism}, note = {I 23 Physicalism/Descartes/Mayr: all organisms except the human are nothing but machines. >R. Descartes. Camps: Johannes Müller, Justus von Liebig, H.v. Helmholtz, Emil Dubois Reymond I 26 PhysicalismVs "Vitality": proof that work can be completely converted into heat. Ironically, however, the terms "energy", "movements" of the physicalists were just as little clarified as the "vital force" of the vitalists. >Vitalism, >Energy, >Motion. I 27 "Movement"/Dubois Reymond: the understanding of nature is a reduction of the changes in the body world to movements of atoms. A constant sum of kinetic and potential energy, so nothing would remain to be explained. >Explanations, >Physics, >Laws of nature.}, note = { Mayr I Ernst Mayr This is Biology, Cambridge/MA 1997 German Edition: Das ist Biologie Heidelberg 1998 }, file = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=445459} url = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=445459} }