Darwinism and Pragmatism: William James on Evolution and Self-Transformation (History and Philosophy of Biology) - Image 1

Price loading...

Routledge Darwinism and Pragmatism: William James on Evolution and Self-Transformation (History and Philosophy of Biology)

Name: Darwinism and Pragmatism: William James on Evolution and Self-Transformation (History and Philosophy of Biology)
Brand: Routledge

Evolutionary Psychology

Price History & Forecast

No Price Data Available

Price history will appear here once data is collected from Amazon.

Price Distribution

No price data available for histogram

Description

Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection challenges our very sense of belonging in the world. Unlike prior evolutionary theories, Darwinism construes species as mutable historical products of a blind process that serves no inherent purpose. It also represents a distinctly modern kind of fallible science that relies on statistical evidence and is not verifiable by simple laboratory experiments. What are human purpose and knowledge if humanity has no pre-given essence and science itself is our finite and fallible product? According to the Received Image of Darwinism, Darwin’s theory signals the triumph of mechanism and reductionism in all science. On this view, the individual virtually disappears at the intersection of (internal) genes and (external) environment. In contrast, William James creatively employs Darwinian concepts to support his core conviction that both knowledge and reality are in the making, with individuals as active participants. In promoting this Pragmatic Image of Darwinism, McGranahan provides a novel reading of James as a philosopher of self-transformation. Like his contemporary Nietzsche, James is concerned first and foremost with the structure and dynamics of the finite purposive individual. This timely volume is suitable for advanced undergraduate, postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers interested in the fields of history of philosophy, history and philosophy of science, history of psychology, American pragmatism and Darwinism.

Product Specifications

Brand: Routledge
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 184893596X
Category: Books > Subjects > Health, Family & Lifestyle > Psychology & Psychiatry > Schools of Thought > Evolutionary Psychology
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 20 January 2017
Listed Since: 16 January 2015

Barcode

No barcode data available

Routledge Darwinism and Pragmatism: William James on Evolution and Self-Transformation (History and Philosophy of Biology)

Price History & Forecast

No Price Data Available

Price Distribution

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Routledge Philosophical Darwinism - On the Origin of Knowledge

Philosophical Darwinism: On the Origin of Knowledge by Means of Natural Selection

The Jamesian Mind (Routledge Philosophical Minds)

Routledge Darwin (The Routledge Philosophers) - Philosophy Book

Philosophy of Biology (Philosophy and Science)

Pragmatism: From Progressivism to Post-Modernism

Handbook of Evolutionary Thinking in the Sciences

Handbook of Evolutionary Thinking in the Sciences

Routledge John Dewey: Science for a Changing World Book

The Routledge Handbook of Evolution and Philosophy (Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy)

Contemporary Philosophical Naturalism and Its Implications (Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science)

Philosophy after Darwin: Classic and Contemporary Readings

The Routledge Handbook of Evolution and Philosophy (Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy)

Images of the Economy of Nature, 1650-1930: From "Nature’s War" to Darwin’s "Struggle for Life": 7 (Evolutionary Biology – New Perspectives on Its Development, 7)

Routledge Before and After Darwin - Collected Studies Volume 1

Natural Selection: Revisiting its Explanatory Role in Evolutionary Biology: 3 (Evolutionary Biology – New Perspectives on Its Development, 3)

Beyond Lamarckism: Plasticity in Darwinian Evolution, 1890-1970 (History and Philosophy of Biology)

Asian Religious Responses to Darwinism: Evolutionary Theories in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and East Asian Cultural Contexts: 33 (Sophia Studies in ... Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures, 33)

Evolution and the Naked Truth: Darwinian Approach to Philosophy (Routledge Revivals)

Revisiting the Origin of Species: The Other Darwins (History and Philosophy of Biology)

Pragmatism as Transition: Historicity and Hope in James, Dewey, and Rorty

Springer - Charles Darwin's Incomplete Revolution Book

William James: Empiricism and Pragmatism (Thought in the Act)

Routledge Modelling Evolution: A New Dynamic Account Book