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Before and After Darwin - Origins, Species, Cosmogonies, and Ontologies (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Before and After Darwin - Origins, Species, Cosmogonies, and Ontologies (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
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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 longer run of theories about
origins and species from ancient times to the present. The focus in
this volume is on the diversity of theories among such
pre-Darwinian authors as Lamarck and Whewell, and on developments
in the theory of natural selection since Darwin. Plato's Timaeus,
the Biblical Genesis and any current textbook of evolutionary
biology are all, it may well seem, on this same enduring topic:
origins and species. However, even among classical authors, there
were fundamental disagreements: the ontology and cosmogony of the
Greek atomists were deeply opposed to Plato's; and, in the
millennia since, the ontological and cosmogonical contexts for
theories about origins and species have never settled into any
unifying consensus. While the structure of Darwinian theory may be
today broadly what it was in Darwin's own argumentation,
controversy continues over the old issues about order, chance,
necessity and purpose in the living world and the wider universe as
a whole. The historical and philosophical papers collected in this
volume, and in the companion volume devoted to Darwin's theorising,
seek to clarify the major continuities and discontinuities in the
long run of thinking about origins and species.
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