Book ID: CBB985418437

Darwin's Argument by Analogy: From Artificial to Natural Selection (2021)

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White, Roger M. (Author)
Hodge, M. J. S. (Author)
Radick, Gregory (Author)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 2021
Physical Details: 260
Language: English

In On the Origin of Species (1859), Charles Darwin put forward his theory of natural selection. Conventionally, Darwin's argument for this theory has been understood as based on an analogy with artificial selection. But there has been no consensus on how, exactly, this analogical argument is supposed to work – and some suspicion too that analogical arguments on the whole are embarrassingly weak. Drawing on new insights into the history of analogical argumentation from the ancient Greeks onward, as well as on in-depth studies of Darwin's public and private writings, this book offers an original perspective on Darwin's argument, restoring to view the intellectual traditions which Darwin took for granted in arguing as he did. From this perspective come new appreciations not only of Darwin's argument but of the metaphors based on it, the range of wider traditions the argument touched upon, and its legacies for science after the Origin.

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Authors & Contributors
Robert Ready
Michael Dee
Wright, Jeffrey Thomas
Wilmer, Clive
Wilner, Eduardo
Travis, Anthony S.
Concepts
Evolution
Natural selection
Metaphors; analogies
Darwinism
Biology
Science and religion
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
21st century
Places
Great Britain
England
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