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The Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 742

The Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008-12-03
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  • Publisher: A&C Black

Charles Darwin is a crucial figure in nineteenth-century science with an extensive and varied reception in different countries and disciplines. His theory had a revolutionary impact not only on biology, but also on other natural sciences and the new social sciences. The term 'Darwinism', already popular in Darwin's lifetime, ranged across many different areas and ideological aspects, and his own ideas about the implications of evolution for human cognitive, emotional, social and ethical capacities were often interpreted in a way that did not mirror his own intentions. The implications for religious, philosophical and political issues and institutions remain as momentous today as in his own time. This volume conveys the many-sidedness of Darwin's reception and exhibit his far-reaching impact on our self- understanding as human beings.

Italian Books and Periodicals
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 256

Italian Books and Periodicals

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1994
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Knowing Things for Sure
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 292

Knowing Things for Sure

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006
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  • Publisher: Unknown

In science it is obvious that we are certain about many things, but among philosophers there is little agreement as to why we know these things. In Knowing Things for Sure physicist and realist philosopher, Mariano Artigas traces the confusion to non-realist philosophies and argues that practitioners of experimental science do reach logical truths about reality.

The Mind of the Universe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 392

The Mind of the Universe

The Mind of the Universe, written by a philosopher and physicist, provides a study in which a competent presentation of physical discoveries is combined with a rational search for philosophical presuppositions of science. An important contribution to the dialogue between religion and science, it will inspire new attempts at bridging science and philosophy in their common search for the hidden meaning of the new scientific theories.

The Cambridge History of Terrorism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 719

The Cambridge History of Terrorism

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-05-20
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  • Publisher: Unknown

An accessible, authoritative history of terrorism, offering systematic analyses of key themes, problems and case studies from terrorism's long past.

Twisted Roots
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 410

Twisted Roots

Examining the historical and cultural influences that have shaped Latin America, this syndicated international journalist and author suggests that they have made it into the most impoverished, unstable and backward region in the Western world.An indispen

Encyclopedia of Modern French Thought
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 748

Encyclopedia of Modern French Thought

This work covers not only philosophy, but also all the other major disciplines, including literary theory, sociology, linguistics, political thought, theology, and more. The 240 analytical entries examine individuals such as Bergson, Durkheim, Mauss, Sartre, Beauvoir, Foucault, Levi-Strauss, Lacan, Kristeva, and Derrida; specific disciplines such as the arts, anthropology, historiography, psychology, and sociology; key beliefs and methodologies such as Catholicism, deconstruction, feminism, Marxism, and phenomenology; themes and concepts such as freedom, language, media, and sexuality; and istorical, political, social, and intellectual context. --From publisher's decription.

The Autobiography of St. Anthony Mary Claret
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 328

The Autobiography of St. Anthony Mary Claret

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009
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  • Publisher: TAN Books

Bares the soul of a saint and reveals the methods which were so successful for him in converting others. From age 5 he was haunted by the thought of the souls about to fall into Hell. This insight fueled his powerful drive to save as many souls as he could.

Negotiating Darwin
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 346

Negotiating Darwin

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006-09-22
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  • Publisher: JHU Press

Drawing on primary sources made available to scholars only after the archives of the Holy Office were unsealed in 1998, Negotiating Darwin chronicles how the Vatican reacted when six Catholics—five clerics and one layman—tried to integrate evolution and Christianity in the decades following the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species. As Mariano Artigas, Thomas F. Glick, and Rafael A. Martínez reconstruct these cases, we see who acted and why, how the events unfolded, and how decisions were put into practice. With the long shadow of Galileo's condemnation hanging over the Church as the Scientific Revolution ushered in new paradigms, the Church found it prudent to avoid publicly and directly condemning Darwinism and thus treated these cases carefully. The authors reveal the ideological and operational stance of the Vatican and describe its secret deliberations. In the process, they provide insight into current debates on evolution and religious belief.

Oracles of Science
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 284

Oracles of Science

Oracles of Science examines the popular writings of the six scientists who have been the most influential in shaping our perception of science, how it works, and how it relates to other fields of human endeavor, especially religion. Biologists Stephen Jay Gould, Richard Dawkins, and Edward O. Wilson, and physicists Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, and Steven Weinberg, have become public intellectuals, articulating a much larger vision for science and what role it should play in the modern worldview. The scientific prestige and literary eloquence of each of these great thinkers combine to transform them into what can only be called oracles of science. Their controversial, often personal, sometime...