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Darwinism Today—and Tomorrow, But not Yesterday

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2022

Alexande Rosenberg
Alexande Rosenberg*
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Syracuse University
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A symposium is an occasion for broad brush strokes, and bold theses. We can qualify, indeed repent of these theses at leisure. But i t is only by bringing them into full view in their strongest form, that we may see where the issues lie , and be. instructed about our mistakes by our betters. I certainly count this distinguished company as my betters on the present subject, so I am unwilling to miss this opportunity to be instructed. I shall make claims with which all my fellow-symposiasts should disagree. (Indeed, in a cool hour, I may come to repudiate them too.)

One subject on which I shall have nothing to say is Darwinism-Yesterday, the historical and scholarly questions about what exactly Darwin said or thought. I am also not concerned with the social, psychological, or ideological causes of his and his successors’ beliefs.

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Part III. What is Darwinism today?
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PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association , Volume 1984 , Issue 2: Volume Two: Symposia and Invited Papers 1984 , 1984 , pp. 157 - 173
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Copyright © 1985 by the Philosophy of Science Association

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