Driesch

Many scientists [14] are agreed on this point, although they repudiate the claims of neo-vitalists such as Driesch and Reinke. [

An Interpretation of Rudolf Eucken's Philosophy 1905

(1950, Part II), starting with Kant, explored reductionist themes related to causal explanations of development, including the debates about mechanism and vitalism surrounding Roux and Driesch, as well as the relations between physical science and biology.

Reductionism in Biology Brigandt, Ingo 2008

Remember how Driesch and his supporters fought for recognition that life transcends physics and chemistry, by arguing that the powers of regeneration in the sea urchin embryo were not explicable by a machinelike structure, and how the controversy has continued, along similar lines, between those who insisted that regulative “equipotential” or “organismic” integration was irreducible to any machinelike mechanism and was therefore irreducible also to the laws of inanimate nature.

Polanyi: morphogenetic field Tusar N Mohapatra 2006

“Instead, the next morning I found in their respective dishes typical, actively swimming blastulae of half size” [Driesch 1892].

Epigenesis and Preformationism Maienschein, Jane 2005

A few years later, Driesch was working at Naples and had access to sea urchin eggs.

Epigenesis and Preformationism Maienschein, Jane 2005

Driesch reported agreeing with Roux and intending to confirm Roux's results.

Epigenesis and Preformationism Maienschein, Jane 2005

Driesch concluded with an epigenetic account, but an epigenesis relying strictly on materialistic factors (at least that was his initial response; Driesch did turn later to a version of vitalism).

Epigenesis and Preformationism Maienschein, Jane 2005

In 1891 Hans Driesch (1867–1941), working with sea urchin embryos, got results contradictory to Roux's.

1882 2001

He then went to Europe and is said to have been much influenced by a stay at the Naples Marine Laboratory and contact there with A. Dohrn and H. Driesch.

Thomas Hunt Morgan and His Legacy 1998

Although Roux himself, Driesch, and many others have enriched our knowledge with interesting facts, it was really

Physiology or Medicine 1935 - Presentation Speech 1965