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The Mirage Of A Space Between Nature And Nurture By Evelyn Fox Keller (Review), David Depew
The Mirage Of A Space Between Nature And Nurture By Evelyn Fox Keller (Review), David Depew
David J Depew
No abstract provided.
Mariska Leunissen, Explanation And Teleology In Aristotle’S Science Of Nature, David J. Depew
Mariska Leunissen, Explanation And Teleology In Aristotle’S Science Of Nature, David J. Depew
David J Depew
No abstract provided.
Darwinian Controversies: An Historiographical Recounting, David Depew
Darwinian Controversies: An Historiographical Recounting, David Depew
David J Depew
This essay reviews key controversies in the history of the Darwinian research tradition: the Wilberforce-Huxley debate in 1860, early twentieth-century debates about the heritability of acquired characteristics and the consistency of Mendelian genetics with natural selection; the 1925 Scopes trial about teaching evolution; tensions about race, culture, and eugenics at the 1959 centenary celebration Darwin’s Origin of Species; adaptationism and its critics in the Sociobiology debate of 1970s and, more recently, Evolutionary Psychology; and current disputes about Intelligent Design. These controversies, I argue, are etched into public memory because they occur at the emotionally charged boundaries between public-political, technical-scientific, and …
David Sedley, Creationism And Its Critics In Antiquity, David Depew
David Sedley, Creationism And Its Critics In Antiquity, David Depew
David J Depew
No abstract provided.
John Gibson, Fiction And The Weave Of Life, David J. Depew
John Gibson, Fiction And The Weave Of Life, David J. Depew
David J Depew
No abstract provided.
Bert Bender, Evolution And The Sex Problem (Review), David Depew
Bert Bender, Evolution And The Sex Problem (Review), David Depew
David J Depew
No abstract provided.
Darwinisms’S Multiple Ontologies, David J. Depew
Darwinism, Design And Complex Systems Dynamics, David Depew, Bruce Weber
Darwinism, Design And Complex Systems Dynamics, David Depew, Bruce Weber
David J Depew
No abstract provided.
The Philosophy Of Biology: An Episodic History, David Depew, Grene Marjorie
The Philosophy Of Biology: An Episodic History, David Depew, Grene Marjorie
David J Depew
No abstract provided.
[James Mark] Baldwin And His Many Effects, David Depew
[James Mark] Baldwin And His Many Effects, David Depew
David J Depew
No abstract provided.
Protecting Evolutionary Theory From Bad Company: J. Strick, Sparks Of Life: Darwinism And The Victorian Debates Over Spontaneous Generation (Review), David J. Depew
David J Depew
No abstract provided.
Aristotle, Naturalist.” Invited Review Essay Of James Lennox, Aristotle’S Philosophy Of Biology, David J. Depew
Aristotle, Naturalist.” Invited Review Essay Of James Lennox, Aristotle’S Philosophy Of Biology, David J. Depew
David J Depew
No abstract provided.
Developmental Systems, Darwinian Evolution,And The Unity Of Science, Bruce Weber, David Depew
Developmental Systems, Darwinian Evolution,And The Unity Of Science, Bruce Weber, David Depew
David J Depew
No abstract provided.
The Baldwin Effect: An Archeology, David Depew
The Baldwin Effect: An Archeology, David Depew
David J Depew
Abstract: “The Baldwin effect” stands for a wide variety of ways in which learn ing can be conceived as guiding adap tive evolution ary change. An analysis of the history of this notion reveals that it does not reliably refer either to a theory-neutral empirical phenomenon or to a single theoretical hypothesis. On the contrary, articulations of the general idea depend on distinctive, but in commensurable, theoretical backgrounds. In reconstructing the conceptual history of the Baldwin effect I hope to support contemporary explorations of idea by encouraging the articulation of new theoretical frameworks in which it might make sense. I …
The New Philosophy Of Science And Its Lessons, David J. Depew
The New Philosophy Of Science And Its Lessons, David J. Depew
David J Depew
No abstract provided.
Darwinism And Developmentalism: Prospects For Convergence, David Depew
Darwinism And Developmentalism: Prospects For Convergence, David Depew
David J Depew
No abstract provided.
Intelligent Design And Irreducible Complexity, David Depew
Intelligent Design And Irreducible Complexity, David Depew
David J Depew
No abstract provided.
Natural Selection And Self-Organization: Dynamical Models As Clues To A New Evolutionary Synthesis, Bruce Weber, David Depew
Natural Selection And Self-Organization: Dynamical Models As Clues To A New Evolutionary Synthesis, Bruce Weber, David Depew
David J Depew
The Darwinian concept of natural selection was conceived within a set of Newtonianbackground assumptions about systems dynamics. Mendelian genetics at first did not sit well with the gradualist assumptions of the Darwinian theory. Eventually, however. Mendelism and Darwinism were fused by reformulating natural selection in statistical terms. This reflected a shift to a more probabilistic set of background assumptions based upon Boltzmannian systems dynamics. Recent developments in molecular genetics and paleontology have put pressure on Darwinism once again. Current work on self-organizing systems may provide a stimulus not only for increased problem solving within the Darwinian tradition, especially with respect …
Darwinism Evolving: Systems Dynamics And The Genealogy Of Natural Selection, David Depew, Bruce Weber
Darwinism Evolving: Systems Dynamics And The Genealogy Of Natural Selection, David Depew, Bruce Weber
David J Depew
Darwinism Evolving examines the Darwinian research tradition in evolutionary biology from its inception to its turbulent present, arguing that recent advances in modeling the nonlinear dynamics of complex systems may well catalyze the next major phase of Darwinian evolutionism.While Darwinism has successfully resisted reduction to physics, the authors point out that it has from the outset developed and applied its core explanatory concept, natural selection, by borrowing models from dynamics, a branch of physics. The recent development of complex systems dynamics may afford Darwinism yet another occasion to expand its explanatory power.Darwinism's use of dynamical models has received insufficient attention …
Evolution, Ethics, And The Complexity Revolution, David Depew, Bruce Weber
Evolution, Ethics, And The Complexity Revolution, David Depew, Bruce Weber
David J Depew
No abstract provided.
Evolution In Thermodynamic Perspective: An Ecological Approach, Bruce H. Weber, David J. Depew, C Dyke, Stanley N. Salthe, Eric D. Schneider, Jeffrey S. Wicken, Robert E. Ulanowicz
Evolution In Thermodynamic Perspective: An Ecological Approach, Bruce H. Weber, David J. Depew, C Dyke, Stanley N. Salthe, Eric D. Schneider, Jeffrey S. Wicken, Robert E. Ulanowicz
David J Depew
Recognition that biological systems are stabilized far from equilibrium by self-organizing, informed, autocatalytic cycles and structures that dissipate unusable energy and matter has led to recent attempts to reformulate evolutionary theory. We hold that such insights are consistent with the broad development of the Darwinian Tradition and with the concept of natural selection. Biological systems are selected that re not only more efficient than competitors but also enhance the integrity of the web of energetic relations in which they are embedded. But the expansion of the informational phase space, upon which selection acts, is also guaranteed by the properties of …
Evolution At A Crossroads: The New Biology And The New Philosophy Of Science, David Depew, Bruce Weber
Evolution At A Crossroads: The New Biology And The New Philosophy Of Science, David Depew, Bruce Weber
David J Depew
No abstract provided.