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Adaptation As Process: The Future Of Darwinism And The Legacy Of Theodosius Dobzhansky, David Depew
Adaptation As Process: The Future Of Darwinism And The Legacy Of Theodosius Dobzhansky, David Depew
David J Depew
Conceptions of adaptation have varied in the history of genetic Darwinism depending on whether what is taken to be focal is the process of adaptation, adapted states of populations, or discrete adaptations in individual organisms. I argue that Theodosius Dobzhansky’s view of adaptation as a dynamical process contrasts with so-called “adaptationist” views of natural selection figured as “design-without-a-designer” of relatively discrete, enumerable adaptations. Correlated with these respectively process and product oriented approaches to adaptive natural selection are divergent pictures of organisms themselves as developmental wholes or as “bundles” of adaptations. While even process versions of genetical Darwinism are insufficiently sensitive …
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 …
Revisiting Richard Mckeon’S Architectonic Rhetoric: A Response To ‘The Uses Of "Rhetoric In A Technological Age: Architectonic Productive Arts’, David J. Depew
Revisiting Richard Mckeon’S Architectonic Rhetoric: A Response To ‘The Uses Of "Rhetoric In A Technological Age: Architectonic Productive Arts’, David J. 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.
Robert Ivie, Democracy And America’S War On Terror (Review), David J. Depew
Robert Ivie, Democracy And America’S War On Terror (Review), David J. Depew
David J Depew
No abstract provided.
Darwinisms’S Multiple Ontologies, David J. Depew
R. Hariman, Ed. Prudence: Classical Virtue, Postmodern Practice, David Depew
R. Hariman, Ed. Prudence: Classical Virtue, Postmodern Practice, David Depew
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.
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.
Between Pragmatism And Realism: The Historical Setting Of Richard Mckeon's Philosophical Semantics, David J. Depew
Between Pragmatism And Realism: The Historical Setting Of Richard Mckeon's Philosophical Semantics, David J. Depew
David J Depew
No abstract provided.
The Truth Is The Whole: Philosophical Reflections On Politics, Morality And Religion In America, David J. Depew
The Truth Is The Whole: Philosophical Reflections On Politics, Morality And Religion In America, David J. 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 …
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 …
Narrativism, Cosmopolitanism, And Historical Epistemology, David J. Depew
Narrativism, Cosmopolitanism, And Historical Epistemology, David J. Depew
David J Depew
No abstract provided.