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Author : Michael T. Ghiselin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Michael T. Ghiselin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Natural history
ISBN : OCLC:1374466661
Author : Michael T. Ghiselin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:233674624
Author : Michael T. Ghiselin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:63015988
Author : Richard Eakin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0520047680
Author : F. Wilson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401137560
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.
Author : Henry M. Cowles
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780674246829
The surprising history of the scientific method—from an evolutionary account of thinking to a simple set of steps—and the rise of psychology in the nineteenth century. The idea of a single scientific method, shared across specialties and teachable to ten-year-olds, is just over a hundred years old. For centuries prior, science had meant a kind of knowledge, made from facts gathered through direct observation or deduced from first principles. But during the nineteenth century, science came to mean something else: a way of thinking. The Scientific Method tells the story of how this approach took hold in laboratories, the field, and eventually classrooms, where science was once taught as a natural process. Henry M. Cowles reveals the intertwined histories of evolution and experiment, from Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection to John Dewey’s vision for science education. Darwin portrayed nature as akin to a man of science, experimenting through evolution, while his followers turned his theory onto the mind itself. Psychologists reimagined the scientific method as a problem-solving adaptation, a basic feature of cognition that had helped humans prosper. This was how Dewey and other educators taught science at the turn of the twentieth century—but their organic account was not to last. Soon, the scientific method was reimagined as a means of controlling nature, not a product of it. By shedding its roots in evolutionary theory, the scientific method came to seem far less natural, but far more powerful. This book reveals the origin of a fundamental modern concept. Once seen as a natural adaptation, the method soon became a symbol of science’s power over nature, a power that, until recently, has rarely been called into question.
Author : J. Schuster,R.R. Yeo
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789400945609
The institutionalization of History and Philosophy of Science as a distinct field of scholarly endeavour began comparatively earl- though not always under that name - in the Australasian region. An initial lecturing appointment was made at the University of Melbourne immediately after the Second World War, in 1946, and other appoint ments followed as the subject underwent an expansion during the 1950s and 1960s similar to that which took place in other parts of the world. Today there are major Departments at the University of Melbourne, the University of New South Wales and the University of Wollongong, and smaller groups active in many other parts of Australia and in New Zealand. "Australasian Studies in History and Philosophy of Science" aims to provide a distinctive publication outlet for Australian and New Zealand scholars working in the general area of history, philosophy and social studies of science. Each volume comprises a group of essays on a connected theme, edited by an Australian or a New Zealander with special expertise in that particular area. Papers address general issues, however, rather than local ones; parochial topics are avoided. Further more, though in each volume a majority of the contributors is from Australia or New Zealand, contributions from elsewhere are by no means ruled out. Quite the reverse, in fact - they are actively encour aged wherever appropriate to the balance of the volume in question.
Author : M.J.S. Hodge
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000939262
This is the first of a pair of volumes by Jonathan Hodge, collecting all his most innovative, revisionist and influential papers on Charles Darwin and on the longer run of theories about origins and species from ancient times to the present. The focus in this volume is on the diversity of theories among such pre-Darwinian authors as Lamarck and Whewell, and on developments in the theory of natural selection since Darwin. Plato's Timaeus, the Biblical Genesis and any current textbook of evolutionary biology are all, it may well seem, on this same enduring topic: origins and species. However, even among classical authors, there were fundamental disagreements: the ontology and cosmogony of the Greek atomists were deeply opposed to Plato's; and, in the millennia since, the ontological and cosmogonical contexts for theories about origins and species have never settled into any unifying consensus. While the structure of Darwinian theory may be today broadly what it was in Darwin's own argumentation, controversy continues over the old issues about order, chance, necessity and purpose in the living world and the wider universe as a whole. The historical and philosophical papers collected in this volume, and in the companion volume devoted to Darwin's theorising, seek to clarify the major continuities and discontinuities in the long run of thinking about origins and species.
Author : Elliott Sober
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781616142780
Is it accurate to label Darwin’s theory "the theory of evolution by natural selection," given that the concept of common ancestry is at least as central to Darwin’s theory? Did Darwin reject the idea that group selection causes characteristics to evolve that are good for the group though bad for the individual? How does Darwin’s discussion of God in The Origin of Species square with the common view that he is the champion of methodological naturalism? These are just some of the intriguing questions raised in this volume of interconnected philosophical essays on Darwin. The author's approach is informed by modern issues in evolutionary biology, but is sensitive to the ways in which Darwin’s outlook differed from that of many biologists today. The main topics that are the focus of the book—common ancestry, group selection, sex ratio, and naturalism—have rarely been discussed in their connection with Darwin in such penetrating detail. Author Professor Sober is the 2008 winner of the Prometheus Prize. This biennial award, established in 2006 through the American Philosophical Association, is designed "to honor a distinguished philosopher in recognition of his or her lifetime contribution to expanding the frontiers of research in philosophy and science." This insightful collection of essays will be of interest to philosophers, biologists, and laypersons seeking a deeper understanding of one of the most influential scientific theories ever propounded.
Author : Roy M. MacLeod,Philip F. Rehbock
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0824816137
No scientific traveler was more influenced by the Pacific than Charles Darwin, and his legacy in the region remains unparalleled. Yet the extent of the Pacific's impact on the thought of Darwin and those who followed him has not been sufficiently grasped. In this volume of essays, sixteen scholars explore the many dimensions - biological, geological, anthropological, social, and political - of Darwinism in the Pacific. Fired by Darwinian ideas, nineteenth-century naturalists within and around the Pacific rim worked to further Darwin's programs in their own research: in Seattle, conchologist P. Brooks Randolph; in Honolulu, evolutionist John Thomas Gulick; in Adelaide, botanist Richard Schomburgk; and in Malaysia, biogeographer Alfred Russel Wallace. Lesser-known enthusiasts furnished Darwin with fresh material and replied to his endless inquiries, while young aspiring biologists from Cambridge tested Darwinian ideas directly in the "laboratory" of the Pacific. But the implications of Darwinism for the understanding of human nature and history turned it into a public theory as well as a scientific one. Anthropologists, geographers, missionaries, politicians, and social commentators - from Australia to Japan - all found ways to adapt Darwinism to their own agendas. Darwin's Laboratory demonstrates the variety and richness of Darwinian ideas in the Pacific and, in so doing, shows how the region functioned as a testing ground for the theory of evolution. Further, it illustrates how Darwinian ideas and their European contexts helped invent and define the particular conception we have of the Pacific. Both the general reader and the specialist will find controversy, illumination, and entertainment in this, the first book to probe the extent of Darwinism and Darwinian thinking in the Pacific.
Author : Dov Ospovat
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1995-04-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521469406
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 : Lucas McGranahan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781351975827
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction: a pragmatic image of Darwinism -- 1 Individuals in evolution: James's Darwinian psychology -- 2 Individuals in history: social evolution without social Darwinism -- 3 Self-transformation: habit, will and selection -- 4 Character ideals and evolutionary logics in James and Nietzsche -- 5 Higher-order individuals: truth and reality as organic systems -- Conclusion: divided selves and dialectical selves -- Index
Author : Mike Hawkins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1997-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 052157434X
An analysis of the ideological influence of Social Darwinists in Europe and America.
Author : Peter J. Bowler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0801829321
In this pioneering study of the first major challenges to Darwinism, Peter J. Bowler examines the competing theories of evolution, identifies their intellectual origins, and describes the process by which the modern concept of evolution emerged. Describing the variety of influences that drove scientists to challenge Darwin's conclusions, Bowler reevaluates the influence of social forces on the scientific community and explores the broad philosophical, ideological, and social implications of scientific theories.