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The Role of Catalysis in Biological Causation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Edgar J. Witzemann
Edgar J. Witzemann*
Affiliation:
University of Wis., Madison, Wis.
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The last two words of the title for this essay are taken from a paper by R. S. Lillie, and the first phrase is also taken by implication from the same source. The study of chemical phenomena in life has progressed far enough so that underlying chemical causes, involved in Professor Lillie's picture of Biological Causation, may in part be discussed in general terms, and apart from the mass of detail known about the agents and processes involved. Moreover, this mass of detail is now great enough so that even though we are far from having a complete or even a comprehensive picture of these causes at least some of the fundamental principles involved in the chemical aspects of biological causation are clearly revealed.

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Research Article
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , July 1943 , pp. 176 - 183
Copyright
Copyright © The Philosophy of Science Association 1943

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References

1 Philosophy of Science, 7, 314–36 (1940).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2 SirSherrington, Chas.: Man on His Nature, p. 26. The Macmillan Company (1940).Google Scholar

3 Anyone interested in Philosophy and Catalysis will find many ideas in Alwin Mittasch: Katalyse und Determinismus (Ein Beitrag zur Philosophie der Chemie), Julius Springer, Berlin (1938) and other essays published earlier by the same author. Extensive quotations and bibliographies are given by Mittasch.Google Scholar