Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behaviour (Häftad)
avRobert J. Richards
ISBN: 9780226712000 - UTGIVEN: 198712With insight and wit, Robert J. Richards focuses on the development of evolutionary theories of mind and behavior from their first distinct appearance in the eighteenth century to their controversial state today. Particularly important in the nineteenth century were Charles Darwin's ideas about inst[...]
The Romantic Conception of Life (Inbunden)
avRobert J. Richards
ISBN: 9780226712109 - UTGIVEN: 200301"All art should become science and all science art; poetry and philosophy should be made one." Friedrich Schlegel's words perfectly capture the project of the German Romantics, who believed that aesthetic approaches of art and literature could reveal patterns and meaning in nature that couldn't be u[...]
The Tragic Sense of Life (Häftad)
avRobert J. Richards
ISBN: 9780226712161 - UTGIVEN: 200909Prior to World War I, more people learned of evolutionary theory from the voluminous writings of Charles Darwin's foremost champion in Germany, Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919), than from any other source, including the writings of Darwin himself. But, with detractors ranging from paleontologist Stephen Ja[...]
Darwinian Heresies (Pocket)
avAbigail (EDT) Lustig, Robert J. (EDT) Richards, Michael (EDT) Ruse
ISBN: 9780521172684 - UTGIVEN: 2010-12In Darwinian Heresies, which was originally published in 2004, prominent historians and philosophers of science trace the history of evolutionary thought, and challenge many of the assumptions that have built up over the years. Covering a wide range of issues starting in the eighteenth century, Darw[...]
