The Triumph of the Darwinian Method
Author | : Michael T. Ghiselin |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1969 |
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Author | : Michael T. Ghiselin |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1969 |
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Author | : Michael T. Ghiselin |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Natural history |
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Author | : Michael T. Ghiselin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780226290249 |
Analyzes the factors in Darwin's background, character, and research that shaped his scientific investigations and discoveries
Author | : Michael T. Ghiselin |
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Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 1969 |
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Author | : Robert J. Richards |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 719 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0226712001 |
With insight and wit, Robert J. Richards focuses on the development of evolutionary theories of mind and behavior from their first distinct appearance in the eighteenth century to their controversial state today. Particularly important in the nineteenth century were Charles Darwin's ideas about instinct, reason, and morality, which Richards considers against the background of Darwin's personality, training, scientific and cultural concerns, and intellectual community. Many critics have argued that the Darwinian revolution stripped nature of moral purpose and ethically neutered the human animal. Richards contends, however, that Darwin, Herbert Spencer, and their disciples attempted to reanimate moral life, believing that the evolutionary process gave heart to unselfish, altruistic behavior. "Richards's book is now the obvious introduction to the history of ideas about mind and behavior in the nineteenth century."—Mark Ridley, Times Literary Supplement "Not since the publication of Michael Ghiselin's The Triumph of the Darwinian Method has there been such an ambitious, challenging, and methodologically self-conscious interpretation of the rise and development and evolutionary theories and Darwin's role therein."—John C. Greene, Science "His book . . . triumphantly achieves the goal of all great scholarship: it not only informs us, but shows us why becoming thus informed is essential to understanding our own issues and projects."—Daniel C. Dennett, Philosophy of Science
Author | : Dov Ospovat |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1995-04-28 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780521469401 |
In this highly acclaimed book, Ospovat shows that Darwin's views changed radically from his first formulation of evolution to the publication of the full theory in 1859.
Author | : Richard Eakin |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1982-01-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780520047686 |
Author | : David Quammen |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2007-06-26 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 039332995X |
21 years passed between Charles Darwim's epiphany that 'natural selection' formed the basis of evolution and the scientist's publication of 'On the Origin of Species'. This text looks at why Darwin delayed the publication and examines what happened during the course of those two decades.
Author | : National Academy of Sciences |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
The Arthur M. Sackler Colloquia of the National Academy of Sciences address scientific topics of broad and current interest, cutting across the boundaries of traditional disciplines. Each year, four or five such colloquia are scheduled, typically two days in length and international in scope. Colloquia are organized by a member of the Academy, often with the assistance of an organizing committee, and feature presentations by leading scientists in the field and discussions with a hundred or more researchers with an interest in the topic. Colloquia presentations are recorded and posted on the National Academy of Sciences Sackler colloquia website and published on CD-ROM. These Colloquia are made possible by a generous gift from Mrs. Jill Sackler, in memory of her husband, Arthur M. Sackler.
Author | : F. Wilson |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 375 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9401137560 |
I would like to record my thanks to Paul Thompson for useful conver sations over the years, and also to several generations of students who have helped me develop my ideas on biological theory and on Darwin. My wife has, as usual, been more than helpful; in particular she typed a good portion of the manuscript while I was on leave a few years ago, more now than I like to remember. My parents were both looking forward to holding a final copy of this book. I only regret that my mother did not live long enough to see its completion. I must also thank the publishers and their staff. They have been re markably patient about meeting deadlines - promises were repeatedly made and then, owing to family situations, had to be broken - and for this I am considerably in their debt. I would further like to thank the following authors and publishers for permission to use their work: R. C. Lewontin, The Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change, Figure 1, p. 14; © 1964 Columbia University Press; reprinted here by kind permission of the author and publisher. F. Wilson, 'Goudge's Contribution to the Philosophy of Science', in L. W. Sumner, J. G. Slater, and F. Wilson (eds.), Pragmatism and Purpose: Essays in Honour of T. A. Goudge; © 1964 University of Toronto Press; reproduced here in part by kind permission of all the editors and the publisher.