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Modeling causal structures:Volterra's struggle and Darwin's success
Modeling Causal inference Volterra Predator-prey-model Darwin Coral atolls
2016/6/15
The Lotka-Volterra predator-prey-model is a widely known example of model-based science. Here we reexamine Vito Volterra's and Umberto D'Ancona's original publications on the model, and in particular ...
Darwin's Explanation of Races by Means of Sexual Selection
Descent of Man Adrian Desmond female choice vs. male choice James Moore race sexual selection
2016/5/30
In Darwin's Sacred Cause, Adrian Desmond and James Moore contend that "Darwin would put his utmost into sexual selection because the subject intrigued him, no doubt, but also for a deeper reason: the ...
Charles Darwin and Sir John F. W. Herschel: Nineteenth-Century Science and its Methodology
Charles Darwin John F. W. Herschel William Whewell vera causa analogy consilience
2011/9/7
In this essay, I review the relationship between Charles Darwin's methodology and the philosophy of science of Sir John F. W. Herschel. Darwin's exposure to Herschel's philosophy was, I argue, signifi...
Charles Darwin and Sir John F. W. Herschel: Nineteenth-Century Science and its Methodology
Charles Darwin John F. W. Herschel William Whewell vera causa analogy consilience
2011/9/8
In this essay, I review the relationship between Charles Darwin's methodology and the philosophy of science of Sir John F. W. Herschel. Darwin's exposure to Herschel's philosophy was, I argue, signifi...
From Adam Smith to Darwin; some neglected evidence
Adam Smith Darwin Descent of Man Eugenics Moral Sentiments
2009/9/8
In this paper I call attention to Adam Smith’s “Considerations Concerning the First Formation of Languages” in order to facilitate understanding Adam Smith from a Darwinian perspective. By ‘Darwinian’...
From Adam Smith to Darwin; some neglected evidence
Adam Smith, Darwin, Descent of Man, Eugenics, Moral Sentiments, Languages
2011/9/8
In this paper I call attention to Adam Smith’s “Considerations Concerning the First Formation of Languages” in order to facilitate understanding Adam Smith from a Darwinian perspective. By ‘Darwinian’...
The Evolution of Darwin's Evolutionary Thinking
Darwin Lyell natural selection origin of morality geology
2009/6/18
(1) Darwin inherited Lyell’s methodology and applied it to the animate beings. This led him, eventually, to the principle of natural selection. This principle enabled him to expel God from biology.(2)...
Darwin argued for the biological basis of morality in his Descent of Man
(1871). Beginning with the thesis of the continuity of man and animals,
he tried to explain the origin of the moral sense, or...