A Darwinian Pilgrim's Late Progress. (10th December 2018)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- A Darwinian Pilgrim's Late Progress. (10th December 2018)
- Main Title:
- A Darwinian Pilgrim's Late Progress
- Authors:
- Ruse, Michael
- Abstract:
- Abstract : This is the final part of 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 installment, Ruse's increasing engagement with historiography leads him to rethink and tackle the role of values in science. The intertwined topics summarized here are considered as they developed between the 1990s and the 2010s: the mediation between empiricism and social constructivism; the historical study of the idea of qualitative, biological "progress" in evolutionary biology as drawn from coeval social ideas; the paradox according to which "progress" is formally eschewed and yet implicitly present in modern evolutionary biology; the development of evolutionary biology from pseudoscience tied to social progress to popular science to full-fledged professional science; Darwinism as hopeful, progressive "religion" contrasted with progress-less Darwinian theory; meaning in a Darwinian world, and the development of a Darwinian existentialism.
- 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:
- 180
- Page End:
- 198
- Publication Date:
- 2018-12-10
- Subjects:
- darwinism -- meaning -- pseudoscience -- darwinian existentialism -- idea of progress
Historiography -- Periodicals
Archaeology -- Periodicals
Cognition and culture -- Periodicals
907.2 - Journal URLs:
- https://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/JCH ↗
- DOI:
- 10.1558/jch.37784 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 2051-9672
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- Legaldeposit
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