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Challenging Darwinism: Expanding, Extending, Or Replacing The Modern Evolutionary Synthesis, David Depew
Challenging Darwinism: Expanding, Extending, Or Replacing The Modern Evolutionary Synthesis, David 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 …
The Rhetoric Of The Origin Of Species, David Depew
The Rhetoric Of The Origin Of Species, David Depew
David J Depew
In 1828, the Oxford don Richard Whately, having in his Elements of Logic (1826) defined argument as the connection between a claim and its support, proposed in its newly published counterpart, Elements of Rhetoric, to “treat argumentative composition as a species of rhetoric. . . . The office of the logician is to infer, but the office of the rhetorician is to advocate by adducing proofs. . . . Thus even the philosopher who undertakes by writing or speaking to convey his notion to others assumes for the time being the character of advocate of the doctrines he maintains.” (Whately …
Inheriting Inherit The Wind: Debating The Play As A Teaching Tool, Edward Larson, David Depew, Ronald Isetti
Inheriting Inherit The Wind: Debating The Play As A Teaching Tool, Edward Larson, David Depew, Ronald Isetti
David J Depew
No abstract provided.
Isocrates And Civic Education, Takis Poulakos, David Depew
Isocrates And Civic Education, Takis Poulakos, David Depew
David J Depew
No abstract provided.
Carlo Michelstaedter’S La Persuasione E La Rettorica: A Translation And Commentary, Carlo Michealstaedter, Russell Valentino, Cinzia Blum, David Depew
Carlo Michelstaedter’S La Persuasione E La Rettorica: A Translation And Commentary, Carlo Michealstaedter, Russell Valentino, Cinzia Blum, David Depew
David J Depew
This translation of Carlo Michelstaedter’s Persuasion and Rhetoric brings the powerful and original work of a seminal cultural figure to English-language readers for the first time. Ostensibly a commentary on Plato’s and Aristotle’s relation to the pre-Socratic philosophers, Michelstaedter’s deeply personal book is an extraordinary rhetorical feat that reflects the author’s struggle to make sense of modern life. This edition includes an introduction discussing his life and work, an extensive bibliography, notes to introduce each chapter, and critical notes illuminating the text. Within hours of completing Persuasion and Rhetoric, his doctoral thesis, 23-year-old Michelstaedter shot himself to death. The text …
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.
Philosophical Naturalism Without Naturalized Philosophy: Aristotelian And Darwinian Themes In Marjorie Grene's Philosophy Of Biology, David Depew
David J Depew
No abstract provided.
Genetically Altered Crops, Ecological Irreversibility And The Precautionary Principle, David Depew
Genetically Altered Crops, Ecological Irreversibility And The Precautionary Principle, David 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.
Communication And Community: The Conceptual Background, David Depew, John Peters
Communication And Community: The Conceptual Background, David Depew, John Peters
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 …
Darwinism And Developmentalism: Prospects For Convergence, David Depew
Darwinism And Developmentalism: Prospects For Convergence, David Depew
David J Depew
No abstract provided.
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 …
Pragmatism From Progressivism To Post- Modernism, David Depew, Robert Hollinger
Pragmatism From Progressivism To Post- Modernism, David Depew, Robert Hollinger
David J Depew
American pragmatism can be best understood against the background of 20th-century American culture and politics. The essays in this volume, by philosophers, cultural critics, and historians, explore the development of pragmatism in this context. The emphasis in this volume is on the interrelations between the philosophical or foundational issues raised by pragmatism as a philosophical movement, and the cultural, political, and educational programs that have been associated with pragmatism from James, Dewey, and Mead to Rorty and Cornel West. The book is divided into three parts, reflecting the periods of Progressivism, Positivism, and Postmodernism. The contributors explore the ways in …
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 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.