Charles Darwin and the Darwinian Tradition

Browne, Janet

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“…His thesis of natural selection had been considerably developed by 1838, following his return from the naturalist voyage to the Galápagos Islands of South America on board the Beagle. Yet he would not publish his findings-apparently out of fear of public outrage-until twenty years later, after he realised that another young naturalist, Alfred Wallace, had also independently reached the same conclusions (Quammen 2004;Browne, 2018). Darwin finally took to the press and got the first edition of On the Origin of Species published in 1859.…”

Section: The Evolution Hypothesis and Its Developmentmentioning

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Can Anything Philosophical Come out of Darwinism? Resolving the Conflict between Evolutionary Biology and Philosophy in the Twentieth Century

Odozor¹,

Akintona²

2022

Ujah J. Art Hum

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Is the idea of ‘evolutionary philosophy’ well taken? If it is, how does evolutionary biology bear on philosophy? The incursion of biological science into ethics towards the end of the 19th century elicited a widespread reaction from twentieth century philosophers, who instantly began to question the relevance of Darwin’s work to philosophy. The doctrine of natural selection may not have comprehensively resolved the age-old problems of philosophy, for example, in the area of human morality and ethical thinking; in fact, it may not be able to replace philosophical inquiry in the absolute sense advocated by most evolutionary theorists. But it has made some remarkable contributions towards a better appreciation of philosophical problems. To this end, this paper explored the various areas of mutual interest between evolutionary science and philosophical inquiry. It highlights the tacit affinities between the two, and thus, finds that even from inception evolutionary biology has tended to follow philosophical inquiry rather closely in the different issues that have been of interest to the latter since its early beginnings in ancient Greece. Some of the areas of mutual concern and interest between the two fields of inquiry include the discourse on God, human nature, the universe, life, ethics, and politics. The paper, therefore, concluded with the submission that evolutionary biology and philosophy complement, rather than oppose, each other. Ultimately, such complementation suggests that both disciplines have a future together; among other things, it makes possible the idea of ‘evolutionary philosophy’.

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Section: The Evolution Hypothesis and Its Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Can Anything Philosophical Come out of Darwinism? Resolving the Conflict between Evolutionary Biology and Philosophy in the Twentieth Century

Odozor¹,

Akintona²

2022

Ujah J. Art Hum

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“…Bowler (1989). Como lo hace ver la historiadora Janet Browne, la denominada "tesis del conflicto" entre ciencia y religión está viva y presente en tales discursos (Browne, 2018).…”

Section: Los Mitos En La Historia De La Ciencia: El Caso Cienciareligiónunclassified

Historia de la ciencia y su enseñanza: alcances (inter)disciplinares en la formación científica

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2021

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La ciencia, que incluye tanto a las naturales como a las sociales, se reconoce como una práctica de gran importancia social. Desde sus inicios, quienes se han dedicado a su práctica han visto en la narración de su historia una parte vital de su existencia. Sin embargo, fue hasta el siglo XX cuando se estableció la historia de la ciencia como una disciplina profesional. Su enseñanza es un ejemplo de las tensiones generadas por la interdisciplina. El objetivo de este artículo es presentar algunas de las tensiones existentes alrededor de la enseñanza de la historia de la ciencia para biólogos, en particular, la difusión recurrente del mito sobre el conflicto entre ciencia y religión. Para alcanzar una enseñanza interdisciplinaria se propone la humildad epistémica como una actitud imprescindible, que permite crear puentes entre formas de conocimiento.

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Charles Darwin and the Darwinian Tradition

Cited by 2 publications

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Can Anything Philosophical Come out of Darwinism? Resolving the Conflict between Evolutionary Biology and Philosophy in the Twentieth Century

Can Anything Philosophical Come out of Darwinism? Resolving the Conflict between Evolutionary Biology and Philosophy in the Twentieth Century

Historia de la ciencia y su enseñanza: alcances (inter)disciplinares en la formación científica

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