The Wider Domain of Evolutionary Thought

Only in fairly recent years has History and Philosophy of Science been recognized - though not always under that name - as a distinct field of scholarly endeavour. Previously, in the Australasian region as elsewhere, those few individuals working within this broad area of inquiry found their base, b...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Oldroyd, D.R. (Editor), Langham, K. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1983, 1983
Edition:1st ed. 1983
Series:Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • The Influence of Darwinism on English Literature and Literary Ideas
  • Evolution and Educational Theory in the Nineteenth Century
  • Darwin and the Descent of Women
  • Darwinism and Feminism: The ‘Woman Question’ in the Life and Work of Olive Schreiner and Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • Darwin and Philosophy Today
  • Darwinism and Language
  • Evolutionism and Arch(a)eology
  • Heinrich Schenker’s Epistemology and Philosophy of Music: An Essay on the Relations Between Evolutionary Theory and Music Theory
  • Evolution: The Whitworth Gun in Huxley’s War for the Liberation of Science from Theology
  • Evolutionism Transformed: Positivists and Materialists in the Sociätä d’ Anthropologic de Paris from Second Empire to Third Republic
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Subjects