The Darwinian Tradition in Context Research Programs in Evolutionary Biology

“Delisle (philosophy, Univ. of Lethbridge, UK) has edited an insightful new volume on the history and philosophy of science. … Contributors to this volume include historians and philosophers of evolutionary biology, and they provide insights on how the research and discoveries of the past are presented or represented in historiographical perspectives. This reference would be useful in libraries that support programs in the history and philosophy of evolutionary biology. Summing Up: Recommended.” (K. M. Foos, Choice, Vol. 56 (2), October, 2018)

Professor Richard G. Delisle has organized the following edited volumes, as guest editor of three distinct special issues published in well-known journals in the area of the history and philosophy of science: 2014: Charles Darwin and Scientific Revolutions. 12 papers published as a special issue of the American journal "Endeavour", under my editorship (Guest Editor), Volume 38, No. 3-4 (September/December). 2012: Human Evolution Across Disciplines: Through the Looking Glass of History and Epistemology. 13 papers published as a special volume of the Italian journal "History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences", under my editorship (Guest Editor), Volume 34, No. 1-2 (March/June). 2011: Defining Darwinism: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Debate. 14 articles published as a special volume of theBritish journal "Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences", under my editorship (Guest Editor), Volume 42, No. 1 (March).