A Darwinian Pilgrim's Early Progress. (10th December 2018)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- A Darwinian Pilgrim's Early Progress. (10th December 2018)
- Main Title:
- A Darwinian Pilgrim's Early Progress
- Authors:
- Ruse, Michael
- Abstract:
- Abstract : Part one of three in an autobiographical series which retraces the most significant events, collaborations, and research results of Michael Ruse's 55-year-long career in the history and philosophy of science. In this article, Ruse's Quaker roots, his subsequent loss of faith, and the first engagement with the study of natural science are recalled before delving deeper into his academic career. The main topics summarized in this walkthrough are considered chronologically as they developed: the epistemological demonstration that the Darwinian theory was not a narrative, or inferior, kind of science but a full-fledged, consilient research programme founded on genetics (early 1970s); the history of teleology in biological thought (mid-1970s); the sociobiology controversy (late 1970s); the so-called debunking argument and the is-ought fallacy (early 1980s).
- Is Part Of:
- Journal of cognitive historiography. Volume 4:Number 2(2017)
- Journal:
- Journal of cognitive historiography
- Issue:
- Volume 4:Number 2(2017)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 4, Issue 2 (2017)
- Year:
- 2017
- Volume:
- 4
- Issue:
- 2
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2017-0004-0002-0000
- Page Start:
- 151
- Page End:
- 164
- Publication Date:
- 2018-12-10
- Subjects:
- sociobiology -- history and philosophy of science -- debunking argument -- teleology -- darwinian theory
Historiography -- Periodicals
Archaeology -- Periodicals
Cognition and culture -- Periodicals
907.2 - Journal URLs:
- https://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/JCH ↗
- DOI:
- 10.1558/jch.37782 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 2051-9672
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- Legaldeposit
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