The Darwinian Tradition in Context

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.

"Delisle (philosophy, Univ. of Lethbridge, UK) has edited an insightful new volume on the history and philosophy of science. ... Contributors to this volume include historians and philosophers of evolutionary biology, and they provide insights on how the research and discoveries of the past are presented or represented in historiographical perspectives. This reference would be useful in libraries that support programs in the history and philosophy of evolutionary biology. Summing Up: Recommended." (K. M. Foos, Choice, Vol. 56 (2), October, 2018)

“Delisle (philosophy, Univ. of Lethbridge, UK) has edited an insightful new volume on the history and philosophy of science. … Contributors to this volume include historians and philosophers of evolutionary biology, and they provide insights on how the research and discoveries of the past are presented or represented in historiographical perspectives. This reference would be useful in libraries that support programs in the history and philosophy of evolutionary biology. Summing Up: Recommended.” (K. M. Foos, Choice, Vol. 56 (2), October, 2018)