The Darwinian Tradition in Context (eBook)

Professor Richard G. Delisle Departments of Philosophy and Liberal Education University of Lethbridge 4401 University Drive Lethbridge, Alberta Canada T1K 3M4 Phone: + (403) 380-1861 Email: richard.delisle@uleth.ca Prof. Delisle has organized the following edited volumes, as guest editor of three distinct special issues published in well-known journals in the area of the history and philosophy of science: 2014: Charles Darwin and Scientific Revolutions. 12 papers published as a special issue of the American journal "Endeavour", under my editorship (Guest Editor), Volume 38, No. 3-4 (September/December). 2012: Human Evolution Across Disciplines: Through the Looking Glass of History and Epistemology. 13 papers published as a special volume of the Italian journal "History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences", under my editorship (Guest Editor), Volume 34, No. 1-2 (March/June). 2011: Defining Darwinism: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Debate. 14 articles published as a special volume of the British journal "Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences", under my editorship (Guest Editor), Volume 42, No. 1 (March).

1. Introduction.- Darwinism or a Kaleidoscope of Research Programs and Ideas?.- Part I. From a Pluralistic Darwinism to an Ever More Inclusive Darwinism.- 2. Selfish Genes and Lucky Breaks: Richard Dawkins' and Stephen Jay Gould's  Divergent Darwinian Agendas.- 3.The Behavioral Sciences and Sociobiology: A Darwinian Approach.- 4. Darwinism in the 20th Century: Productive Encounters with Saltation, Acquired Characteristics, and Development.- 5. Darwinism after the Modern Synthesis.- Human Evolution as a Theoretical Model for an Extended Evolutionary Synthesis.- Part II. Crossing the Boundaries: Between non-Darwinian and Darwinian.- 6. From Charles Darwin to the Evolutionary Synthesis: Weak and Diffused Connections Only.- 7. Major Research Traditions in 20th Century Evolutionary Biology: The Relations of Germany's Darwinism with Them.- 8. Alternatives to Darwinism in the Early Twentieth Century.- 9. The Organismal Synthesis: Holistic Science and Developmental Evolution in the English-Speaking World, 1915–1954.- 10. Lamarckian Research Programs in French Biology (1900-1970).- 11. Molecularizing Evolutionary Biology.- 12. Cells, Development, and Evolution: Teeth Studies at the Intersection of Fields.- 13. Symbiogenesis and Cell Evolution: an Anti-Darwinian Research Agenda?.- 14. Paleobiology’s Uneasy Relationship with the Darwinian Tradition: Stasis as Data.