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Debate Darwin Autumn 2011

 

AUTUMN SESSION REVIEW

The Autumn Quarter Debating Darwin Series was a terrific success, and all of our speakers were extraordinary.

PHILLIP SLOAN - September 20, 2011

Sloan

Phillip Sloan (Notre Dame) discusses natural historical realism and epistemology in one of Darwin's most controversial books...

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ROBERT J. RICHARDS AND MICHAEL RUSE - October 28, 2011

Ruse Richards

Robert J. Richards and Michael Ruse go head to head in this workshop. Richards and Ruse will each argue from their respective corners about Darwin's approach to his material...

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Please see below to go to the video of those you missed or wish to revisit. The series will resume in the Spring Quarter, 2012.

JAMES LENNOX - October 14, 2011

Lennox

In this talk, James Lennox will discuss Darwin's rather curious strategy of showcasing all the potential problems with his theory of Natural Selection...

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GREGORY RADICK - November 11, 2011

Radick

Gregory Radick (University of Leeds) will reflect on Darwin's reasoning on the plant and animal life he found on the Galápagos Islands...

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The Debating Darwin workshops are a series of lectures given by the most acclaimed historians and philosophers of science. These workshops, headed by Robert J. Richards of the University of Chicago and Michael Ruse of Florida State University are co-sponsored by the Fishbein Center for History of Science, the Office of the President, and the Templeton Foundation.

 

Sept. 30 - PHILLIP SLOAN (Notre Dame): Natural Historical Realism and the Epistemology of Darwin's Descent: Turning the Zoological Gaze onto Human Beings

Oct. 14 - JAMES LENNOX (Pittsburgh): Accentuate the Negative: A Puzzle about the Structure of the Origin Solved

Oct. 28 - ROBERT J. RICHARDS (Chicago) AND MICHAEL RUSE (Florida State): Debating Darwin

Nov. 11 - GREGORY RADICK (Leeds): Lessons of the Galapagos

Lectures will occur at noon in the Social Sciences Research Building (1126 E. 59th St.), room 224

Resources

Cambridge Companion to the Origin of Species eds., Michael Ruse and Robert J Richards, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008).

Darwinian Heresieseds. Robert J. Richards, Abigail Lustig and Michael Ruse (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).

Reflections on the Origin of Species, Michael Ruse, with David Reznick, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008).

Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behavior Robert J. Richards (University of Chicago Press, 1987).

Darwinism and its Discontents Michael Ruse (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).

The Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe Robert J. Richards (University of Chicago Press, 2002).

The Evolution/Creation Struggle Michael, Ruse (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005).

The Tragic Sense of Life: Ernst Haeckel and the Struggle over Evolutionary Thought Robert J. Richards (University of Chicago Press, 2008) .

Debating Design: Darwin to DNA Michael Ruse (edited with William Dembski), (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).

 

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