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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.
Accident, Adaptation, And Teleology In Empedocles, Aristotle, And Darwinism, David Depew
Accident, Adaptation, And Teleology In Empedocles, Aristotle, And Darwinism, David Depew
David J Depew
It is sometimes said that Darwin reintroduced an Empedoclean account of organic origins into biology. It is true that Empedocles posited accidentally compounded and conjoined body parts that coalesce into organisms. Some of these conjunctions perpetuate themselves, he asserted, because they are stable in their environments. Those failing to meet this test, he continued, "perish and continue to perish" by a selection process. I argue, however, that the analogy between Darwinian natural selection and Empedocles’s appeal to "incidental (kata symbebekos, per accidens)" final causality, as his critic Aristotle calls it, is mistaken. My argument also shows that in spite of …
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.
Darkness In El Dorado: The Textual Construction Of Ethos In An Anthropological Controversy, David Depew
Darkness In El Dorado: The Textual Construction Of Ethos In An Anthropological Controversy, David Depew
David J Depew
No abstract provided.
American Philosophy In The Twentieth Century, David Depew
American Philosophy In The Twentieth Century, David Depew
David J Depew
No abstract provided.