Author : Peter J. Bowler
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,70 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
"Timely and cogent in its aims and arguments, it should prompt debate and discussion leading to fresh critical and historiographical insights concerning all those topics that historians of science, of society, and of culture associate with `Darwinism' and `evolutionism.'"-- British Journal of the History of Science.
Author : Michael Ruse
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 25,40 MB
Release : 1999-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226731698
Prologue p. ix Acknowledgments p. xv 1 Background to the Problem p. 3 2 British Society and the Scientific Community p. 16 3 Beliefs: Geological, Philosophical, and Religious p. 36 4 The Mystery of Mysteries p. 75 5 Ancestors and Archetypes p. 94 6 On the Eve of the Origin p. 132 7 Charles Darwin and the Origin of Species p. 160 8 After the Origin: Science p. 202 9 After the Origin: Philosophy, Religion, and Politics p. 234 10 Overview and Analysis p. 268 Notes p. 275 Bibliography p. 285 Index p. 312.
Author : David Roger Oldroyd
Publisher : Humanities Press International
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 39,76 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : Peter J. Bowler
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 17,15 MB
Release : 2013-03-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0226068676
A history of science text imagining how evolutionary theory and biology would have been understood if Darwin had never published his "Origin of Species" and other works.--publisher summary.
Author : Gary Cziko
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 14,90 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780262531474
Without Miracles describes many remarkable examples of the fit of various structures, behaviors, and products of living organisms to their environments in a broad synthesis of humankind's attempt to understand the emergence of complex, adapted entities.
Author : Richard J. Trudeau
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 29,88 MB
Release : 2008-01-21
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0817647821
Richard Trudeau confronts the fundamental question of truth and its representation through mathematical models in The Non-Euclidean Revolution. First, the author analyzes geometry in its historical and philosophical setting; second, he examines a revolution every bit as significant as the Copernican revolution in astronomy and the Darwinian revolution in biology; third, on the most speculative level, he questions the possibility of absolute knowledge of the world. A portion of the book won the Pólya Prize, a distinguished award from the Mathematical Association of America.
Author : Jerome H. Barkow
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 33,55 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0195130022
"The naturalizing perspective of Darwinian thought has become one of the major intellectual currents of our time, pervading contemporary understandings of human nature and society. Unfortunately, many social scientists in sociology, psychology, and sociocultural anthropology have failed to engage with it. Barkow asks his fellow social scientists to put aside their all-too-common preconceptions and stereotypes of the "biological" and to consider a powerful argument that is far different from that of those who once invoked a vocabulary of genes and Darwin as a justification for genocide. He argues that the theoretical perspective that has been so successful when applied to the behavior of every other animal speicies can be applied just as successfully to our own, and that the real debate is about how to apply it."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Henri Bergson
Publisher :
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 40,37 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Evolution
ISBN :
Author : Michael Ruse
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 32,28 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0190241020
'Darwinism as Religion' argues that the theory of evolution given by Charles Darwin in the 19th-century has always functioned as much as a secular form of religion as anything purely scientific. Through the words of novelists and poets, Michael Ruse argues that Darwin took us from the secure world of Christian faith into a darker, less friendly world of chance and lack of meaning.
Author : Michael Ruse
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 49,27 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674016316
In clear, non-technical language, Ruse offers a full and fair assessment of the status of the argument from design in light of both the advances of modern evolutionary biology and the thinking of today’s philosophers—with special attention given to the supporters and critics of “intelligent design.”
