Roger M. White (University of Leeds), M. J. S. Hodge (University of Leeds), Gregory Radick (University of Leeds)

Darwin's Argument by Analogy

From Artificial to Natural Selection

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Produktbeschreibung

This book sets out an original perspective on the argument for one of the most important theories in the history of science: Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection. The book will appeal to students, scholars and scientists interested in Darwin's On the Origin of Species.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 259
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 388g
• ISBN-13: 9781108708524
• ISBN-10: 1108708528
• Artikelnr.: 68802857

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.