Article ID: CBB267078190

Evolution and ethics viewed from within two metaphors: machine and organism (2022)

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How is moral thinking, ethics, related to evolutionary theorizing? There are two approaches, epitomized by Charles Darwin who works under the metaphor of the world as a machine, and by Herbert Spencer who works under the metaphor of the world as an organism. Although the author prefers the first approach, the aim of this paper is to give a disinterested account of both approaches.

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Authors & Contributors
Ruse, Michael
Alter, Stephen G.
Archibald, J. David
Bredekamp, Horst
Brotman, Charles M.
Burnett, D. Graham
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Current Anthropology
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
History of Science
Journal of the History of Biology
Science and Education
Publishers
University of Chicago
Cambridge University Press
Columbia University Press
Random House
Wagenbach
Northwestern University
Concepts
Evolution
Metaphors; analogies
Natural selection
Philosophy of science
Biology
Music
People
Darwin, Charles Robert
Spencer, Herbert
Aristotle
Brooks, William Keith
Canguilhem, Georges
Carnegie, Andrew
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
20th century, late
Ancient
Places
Great Britain
Europe
United States
France
Institutions
Institute for the History of Science and Technology, University of Paris
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