Description “In formulating his approach to natural history in 1837-8, Darwin combined ideas and techniques from several areas, of which five are identified. But these do not show why he formulated such an all-embracing approach, going from geology to human instincts, morality, and aesthetic responses. The hypothesis presented here is that Darwin was responding to a Romantic view of natural history such as the one held by William Whewell. The Romantics challenged the adequacy of reductionist systems which, they said, could not explain the `higher' faculties. Darwin sought a reductionist (`materialist') system which would meet the Romantic objections.” From the abstract.
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Curtis, Ronald C.;
(1983)
Charles Darwin and the refutation of Whewellian metascience: How the philosophy of science learned from the history of science
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Thorvaldsen, Steinar;
Øhrstrøm, Peter;
(2013)
Darwin's Perplexing Paradox: Intelligent Design in Nature
(/isis/citation/CBB001201341/)
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Hodge, M.J.S.;
(1991)
Darwin, Whewell, and natural selection
(/isis/citation/CBB000057887/)
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David Stack;
(2019)
Charles Darwin and the Scientific Mind
(/isis/citation/CBB082338915/)
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Charpa, Ulrich;
(2010)
Darwin, Schleiden, Whewell, and the “London Doctors”: Evolutionism and Microscopical Research in the Nineteenth Century
(/isis/citation/CBB001230065/)
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Ruse, Michael;
(1975)
Darwin's debt to philosophy: An examination of the influence of the philosophical ideas of John W. Herschel and William Whewell on the development of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution
(/isis/citation/CBB000018881/)
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Snyder, Laura J.;
(1997)
The Mill-Whewell debate: Much ado about induction
(/isis/citation/CBB000073175/)
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Snyder, Laura J.;
(1996)
The method and induction: William Whewell and current philosophy of science
(/isis/citation/CBB001565508/)
Essay Review
Achinstein, Peter;
(1992)
Inference to the best explanation: or, Who won the Mill-Whewell debate?
(/isis/citation/CBB000030581/)
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Niiniluoto, Ilkka;
(1995)
Hintikka and Whewell on Aristotelian induction
(/isis/citation/CBB000078238/)
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Holton, Gerald;
(1997)
On Robert Merton, Mary Somerville, and the moral authority of science
(/isis/citation/CBB000078435/)
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Wettersten, John;
(1994)
William Whewell: Problems of induction vs. problems of rationality
(/isis/citation/CBB000058362/)
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Casini, Paolo;
(1981)
Herschel, Whewell, Stuart Mill e l'“analogia della natura”
(/isis/citation/CBB000020916/)
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Ruse, Michael;
(1977)
William Whewell and the argument from design
(/isis/citation/CBB000022366/)
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Richards, Joan L.;
(1996)
Observing science in early Victorian England: Recent scholarship on William Whewell
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Valone, David A.;
(1994)
The dark and tangled recesses of knowledge: Theology and the moral sciences at Cambridge, 1812-1837
(/isis/citation/CBB001565228/)
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Metcalfe, John F.;
(1991)
Whewell's developmental psychologism: A Victorian account of scientific progress
(/isis/citation/CBB000035193/)
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Snyder, Laura J.;
(1994)
It's all necessarily so: William Whewell on scientific truth
(/isis/citation/CBB000047448/)
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Preyer, Robert O.;
(1988)
The language of discovery: William Whewell and George Eliot
(/isis/citation/CBB000050112/)
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Lanaro, Giorgio;
(1983)
Whewell e il positivismo di Comte
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