Roger M. White, M. J. S. Hodge, Gregory Radick

Darwin's Argument by Analogy

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 532g
• ISBN-13: 9781108477284
• ISBN-10: 1108477283
• Artikelnr.: 60745340

Autorenporträt

Roger M. White is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Leeds. He is an analytic philosopher whose books include The Structure of Metaphor (1996) and Talking About God: The Concept of Analogy and the Problem of Religious Language (2010).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Analogy in classical Greece
2. Analogy in the background to the Origin
3. Darwin's analogical theorising before the Origin
4. The 'one long argument' of the Origin
5. An analysis of Darwin's argument by analogy
6. Darwin's use of metaphor in the Origin
7. Rebuttals of the revisionists
8. Wider issues concerning Darwinian science.