Robert J. Richards is Morris Fishbein Professor of the History of Science and director of the Fishbein Center for the History of Science and Medicine at the University of Chicago. He has held major fellowships for work in history and philosophy of biology and is the author is many books, including Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behavior and The Tragic Sense of Life: Ernst Haeckel and the Struggle over Evolutionary Thought.
13 Ebooks by Robert J. Richards
Robert J. Richards & Michael Ruse: Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Ethics
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Robert J. Richards & Michael Ruse: Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Ethics
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Lorraine Daston & Robert J. Richards: Kuhn’s ‘Structure of Scientific Revolutions’ at Fifty
Thomas S. Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was a watershed event when it was published in 1962, upending the previous understanding of science as a slow, logical accumulation of facts a …
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Robert J. Richards & Michael Ruse: Debating Darwin
Charles Darwin is easily the most famous scientist of the modern age, and his theory of evolution is constantly referenced in many contexts by scientists and nonscientists alike. And yet, despite how …
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Robert J. Richards: Romantic Conception of Life
"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 …
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Robert J. Richards: Tragic Sense of Life
Prior to the First World War, 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 …
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Philippe Huneman: Understanding Purpose
A collection of essays investigating key historical and scientific questions relating to the concept of natural purpose in Kant’s philosophy of biology. Understanding Purpose is an exploration of the …
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Robert J. Richards: Was Hitler a Darwinian?
In tracing the history of Darwin’s accomplishment and the trajectory of evolutionary theory during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, most scholars agree that Darwin introduced blind …
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Robert J. Richards: Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behavior
With 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 …
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Robert J. Richards: Meaning of Evolution
Did Darwin see evolution as progressive, directed toward producing ever more advanced forms of life? Most contemporary scholars say no. In this challenge to prevailing views, Robert J. Richards says …
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