M J S Hodge

Before and After Darwin

Origins, Species, Cosmogonies, and Ontologies

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Produktbeschreibung

This is the first of a pair of volumes by Jonathan Hodge, collecting all his most innovative, revisionist and influential papers on Charles Darwin and on the theories about origins and species from ancient times to the present. The foci of this volume are the diversity of theories among such pre-Darwinian authors as Lamarck and Whewell, and the developments in the theory of natural selection since Darwin. The papers explore the ontological and cosmogonical contexts for theories about origins and species, while clarifying continuities and discontinuities in thinking, and showing how controversy persists over the old issues about order, chance, necessity and purpose in the living world and the wider universe as a whole.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9781138375192
• ISBN-10: 1138375195
• Artikelnr.: 55983132

Autorenporträt

M.J.S. Hodge is Senior Fellow in the Division of History and Philosophy of Science in the School of Philosophy, University of Leeds, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
The Very Long Run: Origins and species before and after Darwin
Canguilhem and the history of biology. Cosmogonies and Ontologies After Buffon: 2 Cosmologies (theory of the Earth and theory of generation) and the unity of Buffon's thought
Lamarck's science of living bodies
Lamarck's great change of mind
The history of the Earth, life and Man: Whewell and palaetiological science
The universal gestation of nature: Chamber's Vestiges and Explanations. The Structure and Content of Darwinian Theory Since Darwin: The structure and strategy of Darwin's 'long argument'
Darwin's theory and Darwin's argument
Discussion: Darwin's argument in the Origin
Knowing about evolution: Darwin and his theory of natural selection
Generation and the origin of species (1837-1937): a historiographical suggestion
Biology and philosophy (including ideology): a study of Fisher and Wright
Natural selection as a causal, empirical and probabilistic theory
Index.